7.8

CVE-2026-89942

iio: buffer: Fix potential use-after-free in anonymous buffer release

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

iio: buffer: Fix potential use-after-free in anonymous buffer release

An anonymous buffer handle holds a reference to the underlying IIO device.
The reference is dropped in the buffer handle's release function. If the
device has been removed, either through unbind or hot-unplug, the buffer
handle might hold the last reference.

The release function takes the mutex for the buffer using a guard, which
means the unlock happens after all the code in the function, including
`iio_device_put()`. If the anonymous buffer holds the last reference this
might free both the IIO device and the buffer, which contains the mutex,
leading to use-after-free when the mutex is unlocked.

Fix this by using a scoped guard just around the buffer dmabuf list access,
making sure the mutex is unlocked before releasing the IIO device.

Version 10 of the patch that introduced this issue used this exact scheme
of first unlocking and then dropping the reference [1]. During review it
was suggested to use a guard instead, and version 11 made that change [2].
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch das CVE Programm von einer CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) (Unstrukturiert).
HerstellerLinux
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Produkt Linux
Default Statusunaffected
Version 3e26d9f08fbe0b73e951a5e810fdb7a332b7e37f
Version < ab53077511cde811bf3ee219426c522329c41226
Status affected
Version 3e26d9f08fbe0b73e951a5e810fdb7a332b7e37f
Version < f1f8f0e8e0af9cae8150658dc7bb51332f984893
Status affected
Version 3e26d9f08fbe0b73e951a5e810fdb7a332b7e37f
Version < 6d4bdbf7bad63e759bf20259c527f69a1209e3dd
Status affected
Version 3e26d9f08fbe0b73e951a5e810fdb7a332b7e37f
Version < 6288b593e76eb10329326f2cd51e32557203b9e5
Status affected
HerstellerLinux
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Produkt Linux
Default Statusaffected
Version 6.11
Status affected
Version 0
Version < 6.11
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.12.*
Version 6.12.110
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.18.*
Version 6.18.51
Status unaffected
Version <= 7.2.*
Version 7.2.5
Status unaffected
Version <= *
Version 7.3-rc1
Status unaffected
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.16% 0.055
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 7.8 1.8 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab53077511cde811bf3ee219426c522329c41226
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1f8f0e8e0af9cae8150658dc7bb51332f984893
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d4bdbf7bad63e759bf20259c527f69a1209e3dd
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6288b593e76eb10329326f2cd51e32557203b9e5