CVE-2025-22082 (GCVE-0-2025-22082)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-16 14:12 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:12
VLAI
Title
iio: backend: make sure to NULL terminate stack buffer
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: backend: make sure to NULL terminate stack buffer Make sure to NULL terminate the buffer in iio_backend_debugfs_write_reg() before passing it to sscanf(). It is a stack variable so we should not assume it will 0 initialized.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: cdf01e0809a4c6c7877ea52401c2a6679df7aed6 , < df3892e5e861c43d5612728ed259634675b8a71f (git)
Affected: cdf01e0809a4c6c7877ea52401c2a6679df7aed6 , < 04271a4d2740f98bbe36f82cd3d74677a839d1eb (git)
Affected: cdf01e0809a4c6c7877ea52401c2a6679df7aed6 , < fd791c81f410ab1c554686a6f486dc7a176dfe35 (git)
Affected: cdf01e0809a4c6c7877ea52401c2a6679df7aed6 , < 035b4989211dc1c8626e186d655ae8ca5141bb73 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.23 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13.11 , ≤ 6.13.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14.2 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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