Medium [CVE-2026-64496] Fix event FIFO reset race
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-64496 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: event: Fix event FIFO reset race `iio_event_getfd()` creates the event file descriptor with `anon_inode_getfd()`, which allocates a new fd, creates the anonymous file and installs it in the process fd table before returning to the caller.
The IIO code resets the event FIFO after `anon_inode_getfd()` has returned, but before `IIO_GET_EVENT_FD_IOCTL` has copied the fd number to userspace. But since fd tables are shared between threads, another thread can guess the newly allocated fd number and issue a `read()` on it as soon as the fd has been installed.
This means the `kfifo_to_user()` in `iio_event_chrdev_read()` can run in parallel with the `kfifo_reset_out()` in `iio_event_getfd()`. The kfifo documentation says that `kfifo_reset_out()` is only safe when it is called from the reader thread and there is only one concurrent reader.
Otherwise it is dangerous and must be handled in the same way as `kfifo_reset()`. If that happens, `kfifo_to_user()` can advance the FIFO `out` index based on state from before the reset, after the reset has already moved the `out` index to the current `in` index.
A later `read()` can then see an underflowed FIFO length and copy more data than the event FIFO buffer contains. This can result in an out-of-bounds read and leak adjacent kernel memory to userspace.
Affected versions
No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative. Check it before change work.
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- kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.154.1.rt7.495.el8_10
- kernel-0:4.18.0-553.154.1.el8_10
- RHSA-2026:52761
- RHSA-2026:52765
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Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.154.1.rt7.495.el8_10, kernel-0:4.18.0-553.154.1.el8_10, RHSA-2026:52761, RHSA-2026:52765. That is the remediation for this advisory.
The vendor advisory may list interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here. Review it before change work.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 21 days ago·verify at source
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