{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2025-38485", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2025-04-16T04:51:24.021Z", "datePublished": "2025-07-28T11:21:49.624Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:02:17.653Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:02:17.653Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niio: accel: fxls8962af: Fix use after free in fxls8962af_fifo_flush\n\nfxls8962af_fifo_flush() uses indio_dev->active_scan_mask (with\niio_for_each_active_channel()) without making sure the indio_dev\nstays in buffer mode.\nThere is a race if indio_dev exits buffer mode in the middle of the\ninterrupt that flushes the fifo. Fix this by calling\nsynchronize_irq() to ensure that no interrupt is currently running when\ndisabling buffer mode.\n\nUnable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 when read\n[...]\n_find_first_bit_le from fxls8962af_fifo_flush+0x17c/0x290\nfxls8962af_fifo_flush from fxls8962af_interrupt+0x80/0x178\nfxls8962af_interrupt from irq_thread_fn+0x1c/0x7c\nirq_thread_fn from irq_thread+0x110/0x1f4\nirq_thread from kthread+0xe0/0xfc\nkthread from ret_from_fork+0x14/0x2c" } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The race is driven entirely from local userspace by toggling `/sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceN/buffer/enable` and reading `/dev/iio:deviceN`; there is no network-facing path to the IIO buffer core or this accelerometer driver.\nAC:L - The attacker controls both sides — the sensor IRQ cadence via `sampling_frequency`/`hwfifo_watermark`, and the free via the buffer-disable write — and the threaded handler spends milliseconds in I2C FIFO reads inside the unprotected window, so the race is reliably hit and freely retried in a loop.\nPR:L - Only an unprivileged local account with access to the IIO sysfs/chardev nodes is required; on the Android/embedded/automotive platforms that ship FXLS8962AF/8964AF these nodes are group-owned by the sensor service, so a low-privileged process can enable and disable the hardware FIFO buffer.\nUI:N - The attacker performs every step — configure rate/watermark, enable the buffer, disable it mid-flush — with no action from any other user or administrator.\nS:U - The freed bitmap, the corrupted stack buffer and the driver private data all live in the kernel's own security authority; no VM, IOMMU or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - Reading the freed, sprayable scan mask makes `bit` attacker-influenced, so `buffer[i * 3 + bit]` reads past the valid samples and off the end of the stack array, and those bytes are pushed via `iio_push_to_buffers_with_ts()` into the userspace-readable kfifo — a direct kernel memory disclosure on top of the use-after-free read itself.\nI:H - With a groomed kmalloc-8/16 replacement object the loop index `j` exceeds the 3-element `data->scan.channels[]` array, giving an out-of-bounds write into adjacent heap-resident driver state; per use-after-free scoring this is exploitable for control over kernel data.\nA:H - The reported failure mode is a kernel NULL pointer dereference oops in `_find_first_bit_le` from `fxls8962af_fifo_flush()` in the IRQ thread, and the UAF path can be re-triggered repeatedly to crash the system." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "drivers/iio/accel/fxls8962af-core.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "79e3a5bdd9efbdf4e1069793d7735b432d641e7c", "lessThan": "6ecd61c201b27ad2760b3975437ad2b97d725b98", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "79e3a5bdd9efbdf4e1069793d7735b432d641e7c", "lessThan": "dda42f23a8f5439eaac9521ce0531547d880cc54", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "79e3a5bdd9efbdf4e1069793d7735b432d641e7c", "lessThan": "bfcda3e1015791b3a63fb4d3aad408da9cf76e8f", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "79e3a5bdd9efbdf4e1069793d7735b432d641e7c", "lessThan": "1803d372460aaa9ae0188a30c9421d3f157f2f04", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "79e3a5bdd9efbdf4e1069793d7735b432d641e7c", "lessThan": "1fe16dc1a2f5057772e5391ec042ed7442966c9a", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "drivers/iio/accel/fxls8962af-core.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "5.14", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "lessThan": "5.14", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.1.147", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.1.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.6.100", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.12.40", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.15.8", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.15.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.16", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix" } ] } ], "cpeApplicability": [ { "nodes": [ { "operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.14", "versionEndExcluding": "6.1.147" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.14", "versionEndExcluding": "6.6.100" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.14", "versionEndExcluding": "6.12.40" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.14", "versionEndExcluding": "6.15.8" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.14", "versionEndExcluding": "6.16" } ] } ] } ], "references": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ecd61c201b27ad2760b3975437ad2b97d725b98" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dda42f23a8f5439eaac9521ce0531547d880cc54" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfcda3e1015791b3a63fb4d3aad408da9cf76e8f" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1803d372460aaa9ae0188a30c9421d3f157f2f04" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1fe16dc1a2f5057772e5391ec042ed7442966c9a" } ], "title": "iio: accel: fxls8962af: Fix use after free in fxls8962af_fifo_flush", "x_generator": { "engine": "bippy-1.2.0" } }, "adp": [ { "title": "CVE Program Container", "references": [ { "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html" } ], "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108", "shortName": "CVE", "dateUpdated": "2025-11-03T17:38:55.102Z" } } ] } }