GHSA-ggvg-29pg-f22fHighCVSS 7.8

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: buffer: hw-consumer:...

Published
July 19, 2026
Last Modified
July 20, 2026

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📋 Description

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

iio: buffer: hw-consumer: fix use-after-free in error path

In the err_put_buffers cleanup path of iio_hw_consumer_alloc(), the code was using list_for_each_entry() to iterate through buffers while calling iio_buffer_put() which can free the current buffer if refcount drops to 0. The list_for_each_entry() loop macro then evaluates buf->head.next to continue iteration, accessing the freed buffer.

Fix this by using list_for_each_entry_safe().

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