CVE-2025-71198

high

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c34e2e2d67b3bb8d5a6d09b0d6dac845cdd13fb3

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81ed6e42d6e555dd978c9dd5e3f7c20cb121221b

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7673167fac9323110973a3300637adba7d45de3a

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d60ffcdedfe2cdb68a1cde19bb292bc67451629

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-02-04

Updated: 2026-02-05

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018