# CVE-2024-57909: iio: light: bh1745: 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: 6.12

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: light: bh1745: fix information leak in triggered buffer The 'scan' local struct 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 struct to zero before using it to avoid pushing uninitialized information to userspace.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1cca2a666e099aa018e5ab385f0a6e01a3053629
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b62fbe3b8eedd3cf3c9ad0b7cb9f72c3f40815f0

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