iio: event: Fix event FIFO reset race (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-64496
HIGH 7.1

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Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.12 % · centile 2 ()
État
PUBLISHED
Publiée
Mise à jour
Attribuée par
Linux
Statut NVD
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: event: Fix event FIFO reset race `iio_event_getfd()` creates the event file descriptor with `anon_inode_getfd()`, which allocates a new fd, creates the anonymous file and installs it in the process fd table before returning to the caller. The IIO code resets the event FIFO after `anon_inode_getfd()` has returned, but before `IIO_GET_EVENT_FD_IOCTL` has copied the fd number to userspace. But since fd tables are shared between threads, another thread can guess the newly allocated fd number and issue a `read()` on it as soon as the fd has been installed. This means the `kfifo_to_user()` in `iio_event_chrdev_read()` can run in parallel with the `kfifo_reset_out()` in `iio_event_getfd()`. The kfifo documentation says that `kfifo_reset_out()` is only safe when it is called from the reader thread and there is only one concurrent reader. Otherwise it is dangerous and must be handled in the same way as `kfifo_reset()`. If that happens, `kfifo_to_user()` can advance the FIFO `out` index based on state from before the reset, after the reset has already moved the `out` index to the current `in` index. That can leave the FIFO with an `out` index past the `in` index. A later `read()` can then see an underflowed FIFO length and copy more data than the event FIFO buffer contains. This can result in an out-of-bounds read and leak adjacent kernel memory to userspace. Move the FIFO reset before `anon_inode_getfd()`. At that point the event fd is marked busy, but the new fd has not been installed yet, so userspace cannot access it while the FIFO is reset.

Faiblesses (CWE)

  • CWE-362 — Situation de compétition

Références

Scores

VersionScoreVecteurÉvalué par
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

Références européennes

Avis du CERT-FR

Produits affectés

ProduitVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected b91accafbb1031b80d22ad83576877ff2f8b4774 < 9dc84ba4be5bbeb29ee49efe6cea2cb32c461424 ; affected b91accafbb1031b80d22ad83576877ff2f8b4774 < d16a702ca7d29c0b7a9b509339d1b044a1cadb32 ; affected b91accafbb1031b80d22ad83576877ff2f8b4774 < a13ef1adbc62085b21b546b07b0be7e2fbf52150 ; affected b91accafbb1031b80d22ad83576877ff2f8b4774 < 0d4a646d7f87ea3625fafe387043fddc6a2f5e7f ; affected b91accafbb1031b80d22ad83576877ff2f8b4774 < 72c6aa8e0d74eab91b8694cde97dec088c248fee ; affected b91accafbb1031b80d22ad83576877ff2f8b4774 < 9edefd4c56bee3fe331e0355d1f10a533134999d
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.15 ; unaffected 0 < 3.15 ; unaffected 5.10.261 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.212 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.178 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.145 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

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CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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