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CVE-2025-38478

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Published: Jul 28, 2025Modified: Oct 15, 2026

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5.5
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 3.6
Source: NVD

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: comedi: Fix initialization of data for instructions that write to subdevice Some Comedi subdevice instruction handlers are known to access instruction data elements beyond the first `insn->n` elements in some cases. The `do_insn_ioctl()` and `do_insnlist_ioctl()` functions allocate at least `MIN_SAMPLES` (16) data elements to deal with this, but they do not initialize all of that. For Comedi instruction codes that write to the subdevice, the first `insn->n` data elements are copied from user-space, but the remaining elements are left uninitialized. That could be a problem if the subdevice instruction handler reads the uninitialized data. Ensure that the first `MIN_SAMPLES` elements are initialized before calling these instruction handlers, filling the uncopied elements with 0. For `do_insnlist_ioctl()`, the same data buffer elements are used for handling a list of instructions, so ensure the first `MIN_SAMPLES` elements are initialized for each instruction that writes to the subdevice.

Affected (14)

1 product
Linux Kernel
1 product
Debian Linux
Configuration A
13 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Linux
2.6.29 ≤ version < 5.4.297
5.11 ≤ version < 5.15.190
5.16 ≤ version < 6.1.147
5.5 ≤ version < 5.10.241
6.13 ≤ version < 6.15.8
6.2 ≤ version < 6.6.100
6.7 ≤ version < 6.12.40
Version 6.16 rc1
Version 6.16 rc2
Version 6.16 rc3
Version 6.16 rc4
Version 6.16 rc5
Version 6.16 rc6
Configuration B
1 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Version 11.0

References (10)

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Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
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