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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38480" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-07-28T11:21:45.142Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:28:49.584Z" 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-2025-38480" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38480.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38480" title: "comedi: Fix use of uninitialized data in insn_rw_emulate_bits()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncomedi: Fix use of uninitialized data in insn_rw_emulate_bits()\n\nFor Comedi `INSN_READ` and `INSN_WRITE` instructions on \"digital\"\nsubdevices (subdevice types `COMEDI_SUBD_DI`, `COMEDI_SUBD_DO`, and\n`COMEDI_SUBD_DIO`), it is common for the subdevice driver not to have\n`insn_read` and `insn_write` handler functions, but to have an\n`insn_bits` handler function for handling Comedi `INSN_BITS`\ninstructions. In that case, the subdevice's `insn_read` and/or\n`insn_write` function handler pointers are set to point to the\n`insn_rw_emulate_bits()` function by `__comedi_device_postconfig()`.\n\nFor `INSN_WRITE`, `insn_rw_emulate_bits()` currently assumes that the\nsupplied `data[0]` value is a valid copy from user memory. It will at\nleast exist because `do_insnlist_ioctl()` and `do_insn_ioctl()` in\n\"comedi_fops.c\" ensure at lease `MIN_SAMPLES` (16) elements are\nallocated. However, if `insn-\u003en` is 0 (which is allowable for\n`INSN_READ` and `INSN_WRITE` instructions, then `data[0]` may contain\nuninitialized data, and certainly contains invalid data, possibly from a\ndifferent instruction in the array of instructions handled by\n`do_insnlist_ioctl()`. This will result in an incorrect value being\nwritten to the digital output channel (or to the digital input/output\nchannel if configured as an output), and may be reflected in the\ninternal saved state of the channel.\n\nFix it by returning 0 early if `insn-\u003en` is 0, before reaching the code\nthat accesses `data[0]`. Previously, the function always returned 1 on\nsuccess, but it is supposed to be the number of data samples actually\nread or written up to `insn-\u003en`, which is 0 in this case." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4c2981bf30401adfcdbfece4ab6f411f7c5875a1"},{"version":"ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"16256d7efcf7acc9f39abe21522c4c6b77f67c00"},{"version":"ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c53570e62b5b28bdb56bb563190227f8307817a5"},{"version":"ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3050d197d6bc9ef128944a70210f42d2430b3000"},{"version":"ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"10f9024a8c824a41827fff1fefefb314c98e2c88"},{"version":"ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2af1e7d389c2619219171d23f5b96dbcbb7f9656"},{"version":"ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3ab55ffaaf75d0c7b68e332c1cdcc1b0e0044870"},{"version":"ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e9cb26291d009243a4478a7ffb37b3a9175bfce9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.29","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.29"},{"version":"5.4.297","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.241","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.190","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.147","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.100","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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