CVE-2026-98753

Name	CVE-2026-98753
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: tty_port: restore TTY_IO_ERROR on activation failure Make sure to restore the TTY_IO_ERROR flag if activation fails to prevent I/O attempts on a port that is gone or powered down. This specifically avoids issues like kernel panic due to unclocked accesses or NULL-pointer dereferences when accessing powered down or deregistered ports when a TTY ioctl races with hangup and open. Note that the flag is set again in tty_port_close() but not restoring it on activation failure leaves a window where drivers fail to handle the ioctl-hangup race.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-4850-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bookworm	6.1.176-1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	6.1.190-1	vulnerable
	trixie	6.12.107-1	vulnerable
	trixie (security)	6.12.115-2	fixed
	forky	7.2.15-1	fixed
	sid	7.3.3-1	fixed
linux-6.12 (PTS)	bookworm (security)	6.12.113-1~deb12u1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
linux	source	trixie	6.12.113-1
linux	source	(unstable)	7.2.10-1
linux-6.12	source	bookworm	6.12.113-1~deb12u1	DLA-4850-1

https://git.kernel.org/linus/56964f6a31238fb41d5830bb42520c5b10ff7d8f (7.3-rc6)