# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-71198"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-02-04T16:07:33.154Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:56:33.537Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:44.935Z"
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-2025-71198"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-71198.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-71198"
title: "iio: imu: st_lsm6dsx: fix iio_chan_spec for sensors without event detection"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niio: imu: st_lsm6dsx: fix iio_chan_spec for sensors without event detection\n\nThe st_lsm6dsx_acc_channels array of struct iio_chan_spec has a non-NULL\nevent_spec field, indicating support for IIO events. However, event\ndetection is not supported for all sensors, and if userspace tries to\nconfigure accelerometer wakeup events on a sensor device that does not\nsupport them (e.g. LSM6DS0), st_lsm6dsx_write_event() dereferences a NULL\npointer when trying to write to the wakeup register.\nDefine an additional struct iio_chan_spec array whose members have a NULL\nevent_spec field, and use this array instead of st_lsm6dsx_acc_channels for\nsensors without event detection capability."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b5969abfa8b8ed43ebd93479d394f664bd4a5a87","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7673167fac9323110973a3300637adba7d45de3a"},{"version":"b5969abfa8b8ed43ebd93479d394f664bd4a5a87","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4d60ffcdedfe2cdb68a1cde19bb292bc67451629"},{"version":"b5969abfa8b8ed43ebd93479d394f664bd4a5a87","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"81ed6e42d6e555dd978c9dd5e3f7c20cb121221b"},{"version":"b5969abfa8b8ed43ebd93479d394f664bd4a5a87","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c34e2e2d67b3bb8d5a6d09b0d6dac845cdd13fb3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"6.6.122","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.68","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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