CVE-2026-10674: DoS (hard fault) in NXP LPUART driver: unsupported runtime UART config leaves clocks disabled

Published Jul 21, 2026
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Updated

The NXP LPUART serial driver (drivers/serial/uartmcuxlpuart.c), when CONFIGUARTUSERUNTIMECONFIGURE is enabled, called LPUARTDeinit() at the start of mcuxlpuartconfigure(), which disables the LPUART peripheral clocks. The requested configuration is validated only afterwards (in mcuxlpuartconfigurebasic), and unsupported parity/data-bit/stop-bit/flow-control values return -ENOTSUP before the clock is re-enabled.

As a result, a uartconfigure() request with an unsupported configuration left the LPUART in a clock-disabled state; any subsequent access to LPUART registers (pollout/pollin, interrupt handling, or a later reconfigure) faults on the gated peripheral and escalates to a hard fault, crashing the system.

uartconfigure() is a Zephyr syscall whose verifier (zvrfyuartconfigure) only checks that cfg is readable user memory and forwards the caller-supplied configuration unchanged, so an unprivileged userspace thread with access to an LPUART device can deterministically trigger the fault, a persistent system-wide denial of service.

Introduced in v2.5.0 and present in all subsequent releases until this fix, which removes the LPUARTDeinit() call and instead only disables the transmitter/receiver, leaving the clock running.

Affected Software

1 affected component
Zephyr LPUART serial driver (uart_mcux_lpuart.c)>=undefined

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade NXP LPUART serial driver (drivers/serial/uart_mcux_lpuart.c) to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in v2.5.0
  2. Configuration

    Ensure the runtime UART configure path does not call LPUART_Deinit() at the start of mcux_lpuart_configure(); apply the fix that removes the LPUART_Deinit() call and instead only disables the transmitter/receiver, leaving the clock running.

    Zephyr Kconfig: CONFIG_UART_USE_RUNTIME_CONFIGURE CONFIG_UART_USE_RUNTIME_CONFIGURE = enabled

Event History

Jul 21, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·09:30 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·09:30 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeakness
Data Sourced
via NVD·10:16 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeakness
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