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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-68258"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-16T14:45:00.920Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:49:53.691Z"
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-2025-68258"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68258.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68258"
title: "comedi: multiq3: sanitize config options in multiq3_attach()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncomedi: multiq3: sanitize config options in multiq3_attach()\n\nSyzbot identified an issue [1] in multiq3_attach() that induces a\ntask timeout due to open() or COMEDI_DEVCONFIG ioctl operations,\nspecifically, in the case of multiq3 driver.\n\nThis problem arose when syzkaller managed to craft weird configuration\noptions used to specify the number of channels in encoder subdevice.\nIf a particularly great number is passed to s-\u003en_chan in\nmultiq3_attach() via it-\u003eoptions[2], then multiple calls to\nmultiq3_encoder_reset() at the end of driver-specific attach() method\nwill be running for minutes, thus blocking tasks and affected devices\nas well.\n\nWhile this issue is most likely not too dangerous for real-life\ndevices, it still makes sense to sanitize configuration inputs. Enable\na sensible limit on the number of encoder chips (4 chips max, each\nwith 2 channels) to stop this behaviour from manifesting.\n\n[1] Syzbot crash:\nINFO: task syz.2.19:6067 blocked for more than 143 seconds.\n...\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5254 [inline]\n __schedule+0x17c4/0x4d60 kernel/sched/core.c:6862\n __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6944 [inline]\n schedule+0x165/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:6959\n schedule_preempt_disabled+0x13/0x30 kernel/sched/core.c:7016\n __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:676 [inline]\n __mutex_lock+0x7e6/0x1350 kernel/locking/mutex.c:760\n comedi_open+0xc0/0x590 drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:2868\n chrdev_open+0x4cc/0x5e0 fs/char_dev.c:414\n do_dentry_open+0x953/0x13f0 fs/open.c:965\n vfs_open+0x3b/0x340 fs/open.c:1097\n..."
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