CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-38481

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-07-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-07-28
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: comedi: Fail COMEDI_INSNLIST ioctl if n_insns is too large The handling of the `COMEDI_INSNLIST` ioctl allocates a kernel buffer to hold the array of `struct comedi_insn`, getting the length from the `n_insns` member of the `struct comedi_insnlist` supplied by the user. The allocation will fail with a WARNING and a stack dump if it is too large. Avoid that by failing with an `-EINVAL` error if the supplied `n_insns` value is unreasonable. Define the limit on the `n_insns` value in the `MAX_INSNS` macro. Set this to the same value as `MAX_SAMPLES` (65536), which is the maximum allowed sum of the values of the member `n` in the array of `struct comedi_insn`, and sensible comedi instructions will have an `n` of at least 1.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.29 < 5.4.297) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.241) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.190) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.147) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.100) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.40) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.8) • linux linux kernel 6.16 • debian debian linux 11.0

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