CVE-2025-39684
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 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
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 | affected | git | 868a1b68dcd9f2805bb86aa64862402f785d8c4a | Unavailable | None listed |
| ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 | affected | git | ff4a7c18799c7fe999fa56c5cf276e13866b8c1a | Unavailable | None listed |
| ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 | affected | git | d84f6e77ebe3359394df32ecd97e0d76a25283dc | Unavailable | None listed |
| ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 | affected | git | f3b0c9ec54736f3b8118f93a473d22e11ee65743 | Unavailable | None listed |
| ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 | affected | git | aecf0d557ddd95ce68193a5ee1dc4c87415ff08a | Unavailable | None listed |
| ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 | affected | git | 3cd212e895ca2d58963fdc6422502b10dd3966bb | 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 |
| 5.15.190 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.15.* | None listed |
| 6.1.149 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.1.* | None listed |
| 6.6.103 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.6.* | None listed |
| 6.12.44 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.12.* | None listed |
| 6.16.4 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.16.* | None listed |
| 6.17 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |