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CVE-2025-71198

kernel: iio: imu: st_lsm6dsx: fix iio_chan_spec for sensors without event detection

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Severity

Unknown

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CVSS

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Published · February 4, 2026

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

iio: imu: st_lsm6dsx: fix iio_chan_spec for sensors without event detection

The st_lsm6dsx_acc_channels array of struct iio_chan_spec has a non-NULL event_spec field, indicating support for IIO events. However, event detection is not supported for all sensors, and if userspace tries to configure accelerometer wakeup events on a sensor device that does not support them (e.g. LSM6DS0), st_lsm6dsx_write_event() dereferences a NULL pointer when trying to write to the wakeup register. Define an additional struct iio_chan_spec array whose members have a NULL event_spec field, and use this array instead of st_lsm6dsx_acc_channels for sensors without event detection capability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CWE not specified