# CVE-2024-57908: iio: imu: kmx61: fix information leak in triggered buffer

- Severity: CVSS 7.1 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-01-19 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 4.0

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: imu: kmx61: 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.

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## Related

- Browse: [Linux kernel](https://cve.now/tech/linux-kernel.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0871eb8d700b33dd7fa86c80630d62ddaef58c2c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a386d9d2dc6635f2ec210b8199cfb3acf4d31305
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a07f698084412a3ef5e950fcac1d6b0f53289efd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6985ba4467e4b15b809043fa7740d1fb23a1897b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cde312e257b59ecaa0fad3af9ec7e2370bb24639
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/565814cbbaa674d2901428796801de49a611e59d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ae053113f6a226a2303caa4936a4c37f3bfff7b

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