CVE-2025-38667 (GCVE-0-2025-38667)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-22 16:02
Modified
2025-08-22 16:02
Severity ?
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.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16285a0931869baa618b1f5d304e1e9d090470a8
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81a635b6eccd6fc889f6d07ab9583b705f739ce1
Impacted products
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Linux Linux Version: 6d5dd486c715908b5a6ed02315a15ff044a91025
Version: 6d5dd486c715908b5a6ed02315a15ff044a91025
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   Linux Linux Version: 6.15
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