{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-54220 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-54220 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux, published on 30 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-54220 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-54220 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux, published on 30 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-54220 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54220/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54220/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-54220","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54220/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-54220","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-54220","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54220","GHSA-ghxp-vq7f-3f7c","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54220"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel serial driver","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel 8250 serial driver causes a system crash when unloading specific hardware drivers.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nserial: 8250: Fix oops for port-\u003epm on uart_change_pm()\n\nUnloading a hardware specific 8250 driver can produce error \"Unable to\nhandle kernel paging request at virtual address\" about ten seconds after\nunloading the driver. This happens on uart_hangup() calling\nuart_change_pm().\n\nTurns out commit 04e82793f068 (\"serial: 8250: Reinit port-\u003epm on port\nspecific driver unbind\") was only a partial fix. If the hardware specific\ndriver has initialized port-\u003epm function, we need to clear port-\u003epm too.\nJust reinitializing port-\u003eops does not do this. Otherwise serial8250_pm()\nwill call port-\u003epm() instead of serial8250_do_pm().","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"serial: 8250: Fix oops for port-\u003epm on uart_change_pm()","id":"CVE-2023-54220","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"clk: imx93: fix memory leak and missing unwind goto in imx93_clocks_probe","id":"CVE-2023-54221"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Revert \"IB/isert: Fix incorrect release of isert connection\"","id":"CVE-2023-54219"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-12-30","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-15","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel 8250 serial driver causes a system crash when unloading specific hardware drivers.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54220/"}