# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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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.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38478"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-28T11:21:44.210Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:52:17.239Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38478"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38478.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38478"
title: "comedi: Fix initialization of data for instructions that write to subdevice"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncomedi: Fix initialization of data for instructions that write to subdevice\n\nSome Comedi subdevice instruction handlers are known to access\ninstruction data elements beyond the first `insn-\u003en` elements in some\ncases.  The `do_insn_ioctl()` and `do_insnlist_ioctl()` functions\nallocate at least `MIN_SAMPLES` (16) data elements to deal with this,\nbut they do not initialize all of that.  For Comedi instruction codes\nthat write to the subdevice, the first `insn-\u003en` data elements are\ncopied from user-space, but the remaining elements are left\nuninitialized.  That could be a problem if the subdevice instruction\nhandler reads the uninitialized data.  Ensure that the first\n`MIN_SAMPLES` elements are initialized before calling these instruction\nhandlers, filling the uncopied elements with 0.  For\n`do_insnlist_ioctl()`, the same data buffer elements are used for\nhandling a list of instructions, so ensure the first `MIN_SAMPLES`\nelements are initialized for each instruction that writes to the\nsubdevice."
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