CVE-2026-64496
Gravedad:
Pendiente de análisis
Tipo:
No Disponible / Otro tipo
Fecha de publicación:
25/07/2026
Última modificación:
25/07/2026
Descripción
*** Pendiente de traducción *** In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
iio: event: Fix event FIFO reset race<br />
<br />
`iio_event_getfd()` creates the event file descriptor with<br />
`anon_inode_getfd()`, which allocates a new fd, creates the anonymous<br />
file and installs it in the process fd table before returning to the<br />
caller.<br />
<br />
The IIO code resets the event FIFO after `anon_inode_getfd()` has returned,<br />
but before `IIO_GET_EVENT_FD_IOCTL` has copied the fd number to userspace.<br />
But since fd tables are shared between threads, another thread can guess<br />
the newly allocated fd number and issue a `read()` on it as soon as the fd<br />
has been installed.<br />
<br />
This means the `kfifo_to_user()` in `iio_event_chrdev_read()` can run in<br />
parallel with the `kfifo_reset_out()` in `iio_event_getfd()`.<br />
<br />
The kfifo documentation says that `kfifo_reset_out()` is only safe when it<br />
is called from the reader thread and there is only one concurrent reader.<br />
Otherwise it is dangerous and must be handled in the same way as<br />
`kfifo_reset()`.<br />
<br />
If that happens, `kfifo_to_user()` can advance the FIFO `out` index based<br />
on state from before the reset, after the reset has already moved the `out`<br />
index to the current `in` index. That can leave the FIFO with an `out`<br />
index past the `in` index. A later `read()` can then see an underflowed<br />
FIFO length and copy more data than the event FIFO buffer contains. This<br />
can result in an out-of-bounds read and leak adjacent kernel memory to<br />
userspace.<br />
<br />
Move the FIFO reset before `anon_inode_getfd()`. At that point the event fd is<br />
marked busy, but the new fd has not been installed yet, so userspace cannot<br />
access it while the FIFO is reset.
Impacto
Referencias a soluciones, herramientas e información
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d4a646d7f87ea3625fafe387043fddc6a2f5e7f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72c6aa8e0d74eab91b8694cde97dec088c248fee
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9dc84ba4be5bbeb29ee49efe6cea2cb32c461424
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9edefd4c56bee3fe331e0355d1f10a533134999d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a13ef1adbc62085b21b546b07b0be7e2fbf52150
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af791d295737ea6b6ff2c8d8488462a49c14af01
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d16a702ca7d29c0b7a9b509339d1b044a1cadb32
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f187dc5a4c4846ffa07d9bda6e760837ed005574



