CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-63930

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.16%

6th percentile - higher than 6% of all known CVEs

Summary

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's IIO hardware consumer error path. The list_for_each_entry() macro accesses freed memory after iio_buffer_put() releases a buffer during cleanup in iio_hw_consumer_alloc().

Risk Assessment

Could cause kernel panic or potential privilege escalation if the allocation error path is triggered intentionally.

Recommendation

Apply the kernel patch that replaces list_for_each_entry() with list_for_each_entry_safe() in drivers/iio/buffer/industrialio-hw-consumer.c.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: buffer: hw-consumer: fix use-after-free in error path In the err_put_buffers cleanup path of iio_hw_consumer_alloc(), the code was using list_for_each_entry() to iterate through buffers while calling iio_buffer_put() which can free the current buffer if refcount drops to 0. The list_for_each_entry() loop macro then evaluates buf->head.next to continue iteration, accessing the freed buffer. Fix this by using list_for_each_entry_safe().

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