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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64496"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:51:53.194Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:48:37.305Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-64496"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64496.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64496"
title: "iio: event: Fix event FIFO reset race"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niio: event: Fix event FIFO reset race\n\n`iio_event_getfd()` creates the event file descriptor with\n`anon_inode_getfd()`, which allocates a new fd, creates the anonymous\nfile and installs it in the process fd table before returning to the\ncaller.\n\nThe IIO code resets the event FIFO after `anon_inode_getfd()` has returned,\nbut before `IIO_GET_EVENT_FD_IOCTL` has copied the fd number to userspace.\nBut since fd tables are shared between threads, another thread can guess\nthe newly allocated fd number and issue a `read()` on it as soon as the fd\nhas been installed.\n\nThis means the `kfifo_to_user()` in `iio_event_chrdev_read()` can run in\nparallel with the `kfifo_reset_out()` in `iio_event_getfd()`.\n\nThe kfifo documentation says that `kfifo_reset_out()` is only safe when it\nis called from the reader thread and there is only one concurrent reader.\nOtherwise it is dangerous and must be handled in the same way as\n`kfifo_reset()`.\n\nIf that happens, `kfifo_to_user()` can advance the FIFO `out` index based\non state from before the reset, after the reset has already moved the `out`\nindex to the current `in` index. That can leave the FIFO with an `out`\nindex past the `in` index. A later `read()` can then see an underflowed\nFIFO length and copy more data than the event FIFO buffer contains. This\ncan result in an out-of-bounds read and leak adjacent kernel memory to\nuserspace.\n\nMove the FIFO reset before `anon_inode_getfd()`. At that point the event fd is\nmarked busy, but the new fd has not been installed yet, so userspace cannot\naccess it while the FIFO is reset."
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