Description

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

driver: iio: add missing checks on iio_info's callback access

Some callbacks from iio_info structure are accessed without any check, so
if a driver doesn't implement them trying to access the corresponding
sysfs entries produce a kernel oops such as:

[ 2203.527791] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 when execute
[...]
[ 2203.783416] Call trace:
[ 2203.783429] iio_read_channel_info_avail from dev_attr_show+0x18/0x48
[ 2203.789807] dev_attr_show from sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x90/0x120
[ 2203.794181] sysfs_kf_seq_show from seq_read_iter+0xd0/0x4e4
[ 2203.798555] seq_read_iter from vfs_read+0x238/0x2a0
[ 2203.802236] vfs_read from ksys_read+0xa4/0xd4
[ 2203.805385] ksys_read from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x54
[ 2203.809135] Exception stack(0xe0badfa8 to 0xe0badff0)
[ 2203.812880] dfa0: 00000003 b6f10f80 00000003 b6eab000 00020000 00000000
[ 2203.819746] dfc0: 00000003 b6f10f80 7ff00000 00000003 00000003 00000000 00020000 00000000
[ 2203.826619] dfe0: b6e1bc88 bed80958 b6e1bc94 b6e1bcb0
[ 2203.830363] Code: bad PC value
[ 2203.832695] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-46715

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 5.5

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 14.9% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-02 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-46715
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0cc7e0ee31e5c44904e98e2229d591e093282a70
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72f022ebb9deac28663fa4c04ba315ed5d6654d1
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc537a72f64890d883d24ae4ac58733fc5bc523d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4ec8dedca961db056ec85cb7ca8c9f7e2e92252

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