CVE-2025-38481
Published: Jul 28, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 - < 454d732dfd0aef7d7aa950c409215ca06d717e93affected ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 - < c68257588e87f45530235701a42496b7e9e56adbaffected ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 - < 69dc06b9514522de532e997a21d035cd29b0db44affected ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 - < d4c73ce13f5b5a0fe0319f1f352ff602f0ace8e3affected ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 - < c9d3d9667443caafa804cd07940aeaef8e53aa90+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 2.6.29unaffected 0 - < 2.6.29unaffected 5.4.297 - <= 5.4.*unaffected 5.10.241 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.190 - <= 5.15.*+5 more versions |
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