CVE-2024-57906: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: adc: ti-ads8688: fix information leak in triggered buffer The 'buffer' local array is used to push data to user space from a triggered buffer, but it does not set values for inactive channels, as it only uses iio_for_each_active_channel() to assign new values. Initialize the array to zero before using it to avoid pushing uninitialized information to userspace.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.19.198, before 4.20 (fixed in 4.20); from 5.4.132, before 5.5 (fixed in 5.5); from 5.10.50, before 5.11 (fixed in 5.11); from 5.12.17, before 5.13 (fixed in 5.13); from 5.13.2, before 6.1.125 (fixed in 6.1.125); from 6.2, before 6.6.72 (fixed in 6.6.72); …

Published 2025-01-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.