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CVE-2024-57905: iio: adc: ti-ads1119: fix information leak in triggered buffer

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-01-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-908

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: adc: ti-ads1119: fix information leak in triggered buffer The 'scan' local struct is used to push data to user space from a triggered buffer, but it has a hole between the sample (unsigned int) and the timestamp. This hole is never initialized. Initialize the struct to zero before using it to avoid pushing uninitialized information to userspace.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: from 6.11 before 6.12.10; 6.13-rc1, 6.13-rc2, 6.13-rc3, 6.13-rc4, 6.13-rc5, 6.13-rc6 — fixed in 6.12.10

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 6.12.10. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f1687cca911a2f294313c762e0646cd9e7be8cc
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75f339d3ecd38cb1ce05357d647189d4a7f7ed08

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