Medium [CVE-2026-63876] Convert to use a platform device
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-63876.
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: zs: Convert to use a platform device Prevent a crash from happening as the first serial port is initialised: Console: switching to mono frame buffer device 160x64 fb0: PMAG-AA frame buffer device at tc0 DECstation Z85C30 serial driver version 0.10 CPU 0 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000002c, epc == 803ab00c, ra == 803aafe0 Oops[#1]: CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.4.0-rc3-00031-g84a9582fd203-dirty #57 $ 0: 00000000 10012c00 803aaeb0 00000000 $ 4: 80e12f60 80e12f50 80e12f58 81000030 $ 8: 00000000 805ff37c 00000000 33433538 $12: 65732030 00000006 80c2915d 6c616972 $16: 80e12f00 807b7630 00000000 00000000 $20: 00000004 00000348 000001a0 807623b8 $24: 00000018 00000000 $28: 80c24000 80c25d60 8078b148 803aafe0 Hi: 00000000 Lo: 00000000 epc: 803ab00c serial_base_ctrl_add+0x78/0xf4 ra: 803aafe0 serial_base_ctrl_add+0x4c/0xf4 Status: 10012c03KERNEL EXL IE Cause: 00000008 (ExcCode 02) BadVA: 0000002c PrId: 00000440 (R4400SC) Modules linked in: Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo=(ptrval), task=(ptrval), tls=00000000) Stack: 80760000 00000cc0 00400044 00400040 803aa02c 80d61ab8 00000000 807b7630 80760000 807623b8 807b7628 803aa644 80386998 00000000 80e17780 80220f68 80e17780 80d61ab8 80c17d80 80e17780 80e17780 8063c798 80e17780 80383fa0 00000010 80e17780 00000000 80386998…
Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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Mitigation
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