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CVE-2025-39684

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Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2025
Source publication
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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comedi: Fix use of uninitialized memory in do_insn_ioctl() and do_insnlist_ioctl()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: comedi: Fix use of uninitialized memory in do_insn_ioctl() and do_insnlist_ioctl() syzbot reports a KMSAN kernel-infoleak in `do_insn_ioctl()`. A kernel buffer is allocated to hold `insn->n` samples (each of which is an `unsigned int`). For some instruction types, `insn->n` samples are copied back to user-space, unless an error code is being returned. The problem is that not all the instruction handlers that need to return data to userspace fill in the whole `insn->n` samples, so that there is an information leak. There is a similar syzbot report for `do_insnlist_ioctl()`, although it does not have a reproducer for it at the time of writing. One culprit is `insn_rw_emulate_bits()` which is used as the handler for `INSN_READ` or `INSN_WRITE` instructions for subdevices that do not have a specific handler for that instruction, but do have an `INSN_BITS` handler. For `INSN_READ` it only fills in at most 1 sample, so if `insn->n` is greater than 1, the remaining `insn->n - 1` samples copied to userspace will be uninitialized kernel data. Another culprit is `vm80xx_ai_insn_read()` in the "vm80xx" driver. It never returns an error, even if it fails to fill the buffer. Fix it in `do_insn_ioctl()` and `do_insnlist_ioctl()` by making sure that uninitialized parts of the allocated buffer are zeroed before handling each instruction. Thanks to Arnaud Lecomte for their fix to `do_insn_ioctl()`. That fix replaced the call to `kmalloc_array()` with `kcalloc()`, but it is not always necessary to clear the whole buffer.

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)
ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4affectedgit868a1b68dcd9f2805bb86aa64862402f785d8c4aUnavailableNone listed
ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4affectedgitff4a7c18799c7fe999fa56c5cf276e13866b8c1aUnavailableNone listed
ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4affectedgitd84f6e77ebe3359394df32ecd97e0d76a25283dcUnavailableNone listed
ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4affectedgitf3b0c9ec54736f3b8118f93a473d22e11ee65743UnavailableNone listed
ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4affectedgitaecf0d557ddd95ce68193a5ee1dc4c87415ff08aUnavailableNone listed
ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4affectedgit3cd212e895ca2d58963fdc6422502b10dd3966bbUnavailableNone 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
5.15.190unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.15.*None listed
6.1.149unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.1.*None listed
6.6.103unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.6.*None listed
6.12.44unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.12.*None listed
6.16.4unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.16.*None listed
6.17unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed