Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 18, 2026
CVE-2026-98668
CVE-2026-98668
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iio: buffer: Ensure bounce buffer used for unaligned case is zeroed.
iio_push_to_buffers_with_ts_unaligned() leaks uninitialized heap memory to userspace if the data passed in is not a multiple of 8 bytes and the timestamp is enabled. Specify __GFP_ZERO for the devm_krealloc() to ensure any extra space is cleared.
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