CVE-2025-71198

Summary

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

iio: imu: st_lsm6dsx: fix iio_chan_spec for sensors without event detection

The st_lsm6dsx_acc_channels array of struct iio_chan_spec has a non-NULL event_spec field, indicating support for IIO events. However, event detection is not supported for all sensors, and if userspace tries to configure accelerometer wakeup events on a sensor device that does not support them (e.g. LSM6DS0), st_lsm6dsx_write_event() dereferences a NULL pointer when trying to write to the wakeup register. Define an additional struct iio_chan_spec array whose members have a NULL event_spec field, and use this array instead of st_lsm6dsx_acc_channels for sensors without event detection capability.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxb5969abfa8b8ed43ebd93479d394f664bd4a5a87 < 7673167fac9323110973a3300637adba7d45de3aaffected
LinuxLinuxb5969abfa8b8ed43ebd93479d394f664bd4a5a87 < 4d60ffcdedfe2cdb68a1cde19bb292bc67451629affected
LinuxLinuxb5969abfa8b8ed43ebd93479d394f664bd4a5a87 < 81ed6e42d6e555dd978c9dd5e3f7c20cb121221baffected
LinuxLinuxb5969abfa8b8ed43ebd93479d394f664bd4a5a87 < c34e2e2d67b3bb8d5a6d09b0d6dac845cdd13fb3affected
LinuxLinux5.5affected
LinuxLinux0 < 5.5unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.122 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.68 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.8 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.19 <= *unaffected

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