CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38481
5.5 MEDIUM
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- 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
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08ae4b20f5e82101d77326ecab9089e110f224cc Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/454d732dfd0aef7d7aa950c409215ca06d717e93 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69dc06b9514522de532e997a21d035cd29b0db44 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/992d600f284e719242a434166e86c1999649b71c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c68257588e87f45530235701a42496b7e9e56adb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9d3d9667443caafa804cd07940aeaef8e53aa90 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4c73ce13f5b5a0fe0319f1f352ff602f0ace8e3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3b8322cc8081d142ee4c1a43e1d702bdba1ed76 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Third Party Advisory