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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-39686"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-05T17:20:53.071Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-12T12:06:13.615Z"
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-2025-39686"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39686.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39686"
title: "comedi: Make insn_rw_emulate_bits() do insn-\u003en samples"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncomedi: Make insn_rw_emulate_bits() do insn-\u003en samples\n\nThe `insn_rw_emulate_bits()` function is used as a default handler for\n`INSN_READ` instructions for subdevices that have a handler for\n`INSN_BITS` but not for `INSN_READ`.  Similarly, it is used as a default\nhandler for `INSN_WRITE` instructions for subdevices that have a handler\nfor `INSN_BITS` but not for `INSN_WRITE`. It works by emulating the\n`INSN_READ` or `INSN_WRITE` instruction handling with a constructed\n`INSN_BITS` instruction.  However, `INSN_READ` and `INSN_WRITE`\ninstructions are supposed to be able read or write multiple samples,\nindicated by the `insn-\u003en` value, but `insn_rw_emulate_bits()` currently\nonly handles a single sample.  For `INSN_READ`, the comedi core will\ncopy `insn-\u003en` samples back to user-space.  (That triggered KASAN\nkernel-infoleak errors when `insn-\u003en` was greater than 1, but that is\nbeing fixed more generally elsewhere in the comedi core.)\n\nMake `insn_rw_emulate_bits()` either handle `insn-\u003en` samples, or return\nan error, to conform to the general expectation for `INSN_READ` and\n`INSN_WRITE` handlers."
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