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Advisory severityMedium5.5Red Hat Linux

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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Fixed versions
  • 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

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 5 days ago·verify at source

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 additional interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here — review it before change work.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 5 days ago·verify at source

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