CVE-2025-38478
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2025
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
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
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 | affected | git | 6f38c6380c3b38a05032b8881e41137385a6ce02 | Unavailable | None listed |
| ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 | affected | git | 13e4d9038a1e869445a996a3f604a84ef52fe8f4 | Unavailable | None listed |
| ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 | affected | git | 020eed5681d0f9bced73970368078a92d6cfaa9c | Unavailable | None listed |
| ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 | affected | git | d3436638738ace8f101af7bdee2eae1bc38e9b29 | Unavailable | None listed |
| ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 | affected | git | 673ee92bd2d31055bca98a1d96b653f5284289c4 | Unavailable | None listed |
| ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 | affected | git | c42116dc70af6664526f7aa82cf937824ab42649 | Unavailable | None listed |
| ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 | affected | git | fe8713fb4e4e82a4f91910d9a41bf0613e69a0b9 | Unavailable | None listed |
| ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 | affected | git | 46d8c744136ce2454aa4c35c138cc06817f92b8e | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.6.29 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 2.6.29 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.4.297 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.4.* | None listed |
| 5.10.241 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.10.* | None listed |
| 5.15.190 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.15.* | None listed |
| 6.1.147 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.1.* | None listed |
| 6.6.100 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.6.* | None listed |
| 6.12.40 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.12.* | None listed |
| 6.15.8 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.15.* | None listed |
| 6.16 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |