# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38481"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-28T11:21:46.147Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:28:50.751Z"
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-2025-38481"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38481.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38481"
title: "comedi: Fail COMEDI_INSNLIST ioctl if n_insns is too large"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncomedi: Fail COMEDI_INSNLIST ioctl if n_insns is too large\n\nThe handling of the `COMEDI_INSNLIST` ioctl allocates a kernel buffer to\nhold the array of `struct comedi_insn`, getting the length from the\n`n_insns` member of the `struct comedi_insnlist` supplied by the user.\nThe allocation will fail with a WARNING and a stack dump if it is too\nlarge.\n\nAvoid that by failing with an `-EINVAL` error if the supplied `n_insns`\nvalue is unreasonable.\n\nDefine the limit on the `n_insns` value in the `MAX_INSNS` macro.  Set\nthis to the same value as `MAX_SAMPLES` (65536), which is the maximum\nallowed sum of the values of the member `n` in the array of `struct\ncomedi_insn`, and sensible comedi instructions will have an `n` of at\nleast 1."
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