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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-68257"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-16T14:44:59.535Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:49:52.497Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:44.935Z"
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-2025-68257"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68257.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68257"
title: "comedi: check device's attached status in compat ioctls"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncomedi: check device's attached status in compat ioctls\n\nSyzbot identified an issue [1] that crashes kernel, seemingly due to\nunexistent callback dev-\u003eget_valid_routes(). By all means, this should\nnot occur as said callback must always be set to\nget_zero_valid_routes() in __comedi_device_postconfig().\n\nAs the crash seems to appear exclusively in i386 kernels, at least,\njudging from [1] reports, the blame lies with compat versions\nof standard IOCTL handlers. Several of them are modified and\ndo not use comedi_unlocked_ioctl(). While functionality of these\nioctls essentially copy their original versions, they do not\nhave required sanity check for device's attached status. This,\nin turn, leads to a possibility of calling select IOCTLs on a\ndevice that has not been properly setup, even via COMEDI_DEVCONFIG.\n\nDoing so on unconfigured devices means that several crucial steps\nare missed, for instance, specifying dev-\u003eget_valid_routes()\ncallback.\n\nFix this somewhat crudely by ensuring device's attached status before\nperforming any ioctls, improving logic consistency between modern\nand compat functions.\n\n[1] Syzbot report:\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\n...\nCR2: ffffffffffffffd6 CR3: 000000006c717000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n get_valid_routes drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:1322 [inline]\n parse_insn+0x78c/0x1970 drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:1401\n do_insnlist_ioctl+0x272/0x700 drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:1594\n compat_insnlist drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:3208 [inline]\n comedi_compat_ioctl+0x810/0x990 drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:3273\n __do_compat_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:695 [inline]\n __se_compat_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:638 [inline]\n __ia32_compat_sys_ioctl+0x242/0x370 fs/ioctl.c:638\n do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:83 [inline]\n..."
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