CVE-2025-38667 – Linux iio Buffer Overflow

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2025-38667 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received
    by 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

    Aug. 22, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    iio: fix potential out-of-bound write

    The buffer is set to 20 characters. If a caller write more characters,
    count is truncated to the max available space in “simple_write_to_buffer”.
    To protect from OoB access, check that the input size fit into buffer and
    add a zero terminator after copy to the end of the copied data.

    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16285a0931869baa618b1f5d304e1e9d090470a8
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81a635b6eccd6fc889f6d07ab9583b705f739ce1
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