# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38485"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-28T11:21:49.624Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:02:17.653Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38485"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38485.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38485"
title: "iio: accel: fxls8962af: Fix use after free in fxls8962af_fifo_flush"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niio: accel: fxls8962af: Fix use after free in fxls8962af_fifo_flush\n\nfxls8962af_fifo_flush() uses indio_dev-\u003eactive_scan_mask (with\niio_for_each_active_channel()) without making sure the indio_dev\nstays in buffer mode.\nThere is a race if indio_dev exits buffer mode in the middle of the\ninterrupt that flushes the fifo. Fix this by calling\nsynchronize_irq() to ensure that no interrupt is currently running when\ndisabling buffer mode.\n\nUnable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 when read\n[...]\n_find_first_bit_le from fxls8962af_fifo_flush+0x17c/0x290\nfxls8962af_fifo_flush from fxls8962af_interrupt+0x80/0x178\nfxls8962af_interrupt from irq_thread_fn+0x1c/0x7c\nirq_thread_fn from irq_thread+0x110/0x1f4\nirq_thread from kthread+0xe0/0xfc\nkthread from ret_from_fork+0x14/0x2c"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"79e3a5bdd9efbdf4e1069793d7735b432d641e7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6ecd61c201b27ad2760b3975437ad2b97d725b98"},{"version":"79e3a5bdd9efbdf4e1069793d7735b432d641e7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dda42f23a8f5439eaac9521ce0531547d880cc54"},{"version":"79e3a5bdd9efbdf4e1069793d7735b432d641e7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bfcda3e1015791b3a63fb4d3aad408da9cf76e8f"},{"version":"79e3a5bdd9efbdf4e1069793d7735b432d641e7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1803d372460aaa9ae0188a30c9421d3f157f2f04"},{"version":"79e3a5bdd9efbdf4e1069793d7735b432d641e7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1fe16dc1a2f5057772e5391ec042ed7442966c9a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.14"},{"version":"6.1.147","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.100","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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