CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-38484

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.15%

5th percentile - higher than 5% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the IIO backend subsystem in the Linux kernel, there is an out-of-bound write vulnerability. A buffer of size 80 characters is written without boundary check after adding a string terminator, allowing writes beyond allocated memory.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability could lead to memory corruption, system crash, or potentially arbitrary code execution in kernel context if an attacker can control the length of written data.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing a fix that checks if input data is smaller than the buffer size.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: backend: fix out-of-bound write The buffer is set to 80 character. If a caller write more characters, count is truncated to the max available space in "simple_write_to_buffer". But afterwards a string terminator is written to the buffer at offset count without boundary check. The zero termination is written OUT-OF-BOUND. Add a check that the given buffer is smaller then the buffer to prevent.

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