CVE-2026-68089 (GCVE-0-2026-68089)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 11:51 – Updated: 2026-08-17 04:58
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Title
iio: core: fix uninitialized data in debugfs
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: core: fix uninitialized data in debugfs If *ppos is non-zero then simple_write_to_buffer() will not initialize the start of buf[]. Non zero values for *ppos aren't going to work anyway. Test for them at the start of the function and return -EINVAL.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 6d5dd486c715908b5a6ed02315a15ff044a91025 , < e166a8cfb28a3d0da260dd70cae274eb8c7cec8d (git)
Affected: 6d5dd486c715908b5a6ed02315a15ff044a91025 , < 89fbd3e32dffb6227f936a9578e6eb4632aa4580 (git)
Affected: 6d5dd486c715908b5a6ed02315a15ff044a91025 , < ab92ed206d41fd171ebd37bc46360d9f2140d043 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.39 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.4 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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