High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 22, 2025· Updated Jul 30, 2026
CVE-2025-38667
CVE-2025-38667
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iio: fix potential out-of-bound write
The buffer is set to 20 characters. If a caller write more characters, count is truncated to the max available space in "simple_write_to_buffer". To protect from OoB access, check that the input size fit into buffer and add a zero terminator after copy to the end of the copied data.
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Affected products
106.15+ 8 more
- (no CPE)range: 6.15
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=6.15,<6.15.9
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)
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