# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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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.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-68335"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-22T16:14:12.614Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:51:12.073Z"
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-2025-68335"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68335.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68335"
title: "comedi: pcl818: fix null-ptr-deref in pcl818_ai_cancel()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncomedi: pcl818: fix null-ptr-deref in pcl818_ai_cancel()\n\nSyzbot identified an issue [1] in pcl818_ai_cancel(), which stems from\nthe fact that in case of early device detach via pcl818_detach(),\nsubdevice dev-\u003eread_subdev may not have initialized its pointer to\n&struct comedi_async as intended. Thus, any such dereferencing of\n&s-\u003easync-\u003ecmd will lead to general protection fault and kernel crash.\n\nMitigate this problem by removing a call to pcl818_ai_cancel() from\npcl818_detach() altogether. This way, if the subdevice setups its\nsupport for async commands, everything async-related will be\nhandled via subdevice's own -\u003ecancel() function in\ncomedi_device_detach_locked() even before pcl818_detach(). If no\nsupport for asynchronous commands is provided, there is no need\nto cancel anything either.\n\n[1] Syzbot crash:\nOops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000005: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000028-0x000000000000002f]\nCPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6050 Comm: syz.0.18 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025\nRIP: 0010:pcl818_ai_cancel+0x69/0x3f0 drivers/comedi/drivers/pcl818.c:762\n...\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n pcl818_detach+0x66/0xd0 drivers/comedi/drivers/pcl818.c:1115\n comedi_device_detach_locked+0x178/0x750 drivers/comedi/drivers.c:207\n do_devconfig_ioctl drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:848 [inline]\n comedi_unlocked_ioctl+0xcde/0x1020 drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:2178\n vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]\n __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]\n..."
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