comedi: Fix use of uninitialized memory in do_insn_ioctl() and do_insnlist_ioctl() (Linux Linux)

CVE-2025-39684
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.18 % · percentile 8 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: comedi: Fix use of uninitialized memory in do_insn_ioctl() and do_insnlist_ioctl() syzbot reports a KMSAN kernel-infoleak in `do_insn_ioctl()`. A kernel buffer is allocated to hold `insn->n` samples (each of which is an `unsigned int`). For some instruction types, `insn->n` samples are copied back to user-space, unless an error code is being returned. The problem is that not all the instruction handlers that need to return data to userspace fill in the whole `insn->n` samples, so that there is an information leak. There is a similar syzbot report for `do_insnlist_ioctl()`, although it does not have a reproducer for it at the time of writing. One culprit is `insn_rw_emulate_bits()` which is used as the handler for `INSN_READ` or `INSN_WRITE` instructions for subdevices that do not have a specific handler for that instruction, but do have an `INSN_BITS` handler. For `INSN_READ` it only fills in at most 1 sample, so if `insn->n` is greater than 1, the remaining `insn->n - 1` samples copied to userspace will be uninitialized kernel data. Another culprit is `vm80xx_ai_insn_read()` in the "vm80xx" driver. It never returns an error, even if it fails to fill the buffer. Fix it in `do_insn_ioctl()` and `do_insnlist_ioctl()` by making sure that uninitialized parts of the allocated buffer are zeroed before handling each instruction. Thanks to Arnaud Lecomte for their fix to `do_insn_ioctl()`. That fix replaced the call to `kmalloc_array()` with `kcalloc()`, but it is not always necessary to clear the whole buffer.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-908 — Use of Uninitialized Resource

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 < 868a1b68dcd9f2805bb86aa64862402f785d8c4a ; affected ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 < ff4a7c18799c7fe999fa56c5cf276e13866b8c1a ; affected ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 < d84f6e77ebe3359394df32ecd97e0d76a25283dc ; affected ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 < f3b0c9ec54736f3b8118f93a473d22e11ee65743 ; affected ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 < aecf0d557ddd95ce68193a5ee1dc4c87415ff08a ; affected ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 < 3cd212e895ca2d58963fdc6422502b10dd3966bb
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.29 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.29 ; unaffected 5.15.190 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.149 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.103 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.44 ≤ 6.12.*

Sources

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EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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