A divide‑by‑zero bug in the Linux kernel’s serial core — tracked as CVE‑2024‑43893 — can be triggered by a malformed TIOCSSERIAL ioctl and lead to a kernel oops that knocks a host offline; the defect has been fixed upstream and backported into stable trees, but administrators and embedded device...
I've never understood how the Serials thing works.
And I've had all kinds of hassles with it over the years with different O/S's and upgrades and second hand machines and broken machine needing repair and reinstalls and whatever...
Is there a clear outline of it somewhere?
Say I have a...
activation
clear knowledge
guidelines
home use
installation
license
licensing
machine
microsoft
mobo
o/s
reinstall
repair
second hand
serial
system crash
tech support
upgrade
user experience
windows
