CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-38485

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 fxls8962af accelerometer driver (IIO) in the Linux kernel, there is a use-after-free (UAF) vulnerability in fxls8962af_fifo_flush(). The function uses indio_dev->active_scan_mask without checking if the device is still in buffer mode, leading to a race condition when disabling buffer mode.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability could lead to system crash (kernel panic) due to NULL pointer dereference when an interrupt is handled after exiting buffer mode.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing a fix that adds synchronize_irq() before disabling buffer mode.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: accel: fxls8962af: Fix use after free in fxls8962af_fifo_flush fxls8962af_fifo_flush() uses indio_dev->active_scan_mask (with iio_for_each_active_channel()) without making sure the indio_dev stays in buffer mode. There is a race if indio_dev exits buffer mode in the middle of the interrupt that flushes the fifo. Fix this by calling synchronize_irq() to ensure that no interrupt is currently running when disabling buffer mode. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 when read [...] _find_first_bit_le from fxls8962af_fifo_flush+0x17c/0x290 fxls8962af_fifo_flush from fxls8962af_interrupt+0x80/0x178 fxls8962af_interrupt from irq_thread_fn+0x1c/0x7c irq_thread_fn from irq_thread+0x110/0x1f4 irq_thread from kthread+0xe0/0xfc kthread from ret_from_fork+0x14/0x2c

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS