CVE-2025-38667 (GCVE-0-2025-38667)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-22 16:02 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:03
VLAI
Title
iio: fix potential out-of-bound write
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: fix potential out-of-bound write The buffer is set to 20 characters. If a caller write more characters, count is truncated to the max available space in "simple_write_to_buffer". To protect from OoB access, check that the input size fit into buffer and add a zero terminator after copy to the end of the copied data.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 6d5dd486c715908b5a6ed02315a15ff044a91025 , < 81a635b6eccd6fc889f6d07ab9583b705f739ce1 (git)
Affected: 6d5dd486c715908b5a6ed02315a15ff044a91025 , < 16285a0931869baa618b1f5d304e1e9d090470a8 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.9 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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