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CVE-2025-38478

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2025
Source publication
Source updated
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Source snapshot
cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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CNA source text (English)

comedi: Fix initialization of data for instructions that write to subdevice

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: comedi: Fix initialization of data for instructions that write to subdevice Some Comedi subdevice instruction handlers are known to access instruction data elements beyond the first `insn->n` elements in some cases. The `do_insn_ioctl()` and `do_insnlist_ioctl()` functions allocate at least `MIN_SAMPLES` (16) data elements to deal with this, but they do not initialize all of that. For Comedi instruction codes that write to the subdevice, the first `insn->n` data elements are copied from user-space, but the remaining elements are left uninitialized. That could be a problem if the subdevice instruction handler reads the uninitialized data. Ensure that the first `MIN_SAMPLES` elements are initialized before calling these instruction handlers, filling the uncopied elements with 0. For `do_insnlist_ioctl()`, the same data buffer elements are used for handling a list of instructions, so ensure the first `MIN_SAMPLES` elements are initialized for each instruction that writes to the subdevice.

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4affectedgit6f38c6380c3b38a05032b8881e41137385a6ce02UnavailableNone listed
ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4affectedgit13e4d9038a1e869445a996a3f604a84ef52fe8f4UnavailableNone listed
ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4affectedgit020eed5681d0f9bced73970368078a92d6cfaa9cUnavailableNone listed
ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4affectedgitd3436638738ace8f101af7bdee2eae1bc38e9b29UnavailableNone listed
ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4affectedgit673ee92bd2d31055bca98a1d96b653f5284289c4UnavailableNone listed
ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4affectedgitc42116dc70af6664526f7aa82cf937824ab42649UnavailableNone listed
ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4affectedgitfe8713fb4e4e82a4f91910d9a41bf0613e69a0b9UnavailableNone listed
ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4affectedgit46d8c744136ce2454aa4c35c138cc06817f92b8eUnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
2.6.29affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver2.6.29UnavailableNone listed
5.4.297unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.4.*None listed
5.10.241unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.10.*None listed
5.15.190unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.15.*None listed
6.1.147unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.1.*None listed
6.6.100unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.6.*None listed
6.12.40unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.12.*None listed
6.15.8unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.15.*None listed
6.16unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed