Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: imu: st_lsm6dsx: fix stack leak in tagged FIFO buffer The tagged FIFO path declares iio_buff on the stack with __aligned(8) but no initializer, but there is a hole in the structure, which will then leak to userspace as ST_LSM6DSX_SAMPLE_SIZE bytes (6) will be copied, but the space between that and the timestamp are not initialized. Commit c14edb4d0bdc ("iio:imu:st_lsm6dsx Fix alignment and data leak issues") moved the untagged FIFO path to a kzalloc'd buffer in hw->scan, but for the tagged path it only added the alignment qualifier and not the initializer :( Fix this by just zero-initializing the structure on the stack.
Affected products
linux: linux kernel
References8
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3147b303b8c7d9f91da4b849ece33b45048f5eaf Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/890d0312d5f94be43eac21f5a34d3bccc60d051b Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/babf1943a40bb5669db57d30ca16c22504b18e07 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9d8e9adaa63150ef7e833480b799d0bab83a276 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d42ac0bfb6a16617c62a59d53706579c7fadbfa6 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6bb3a49c5f9de870ea95e69775df785728e3366 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe1a7f99e72ebd2880515332b79b8c256be22aca Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff8d3c088b77b11782f2c3b97e37425be050e8de Patch
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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7.8
HIGH
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 6 · as of 14 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-787
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