comedi: dt2815: add hardware detection to prevent crash (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-31751
MEDIUM 4.7

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.09 % · percentile 0 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: comedi: dt2815: add hardware detection to prevent crash The dt2815 driver crashes when attached to I/O ports without actual hardware present. This occurs because syzkaller or users can attach the driver to arbitrary I/O addresses via COMEDI_DEVCONFIG ioctl. When no hardware exists at the specified port, inb() operations return 0xff (floating bus), but outb() operations can trigger page faults due to undefined behavior, especially under race conditions: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 000000007fffff90 #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page RIP: 0010:dt2815_attach+0x6e0/0x1110 Add hardware detection by reading the status register before attempting any write operations. If the read returns 0xff, assume no hardware is present and fail the attach with -ENODEV. This prevents crashes from outb() operations on non-existent hardware.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-362 — Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/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 d6a929b7608ae157cef86d00cc580d1038f0b985 < 8d63161837f1bf8810dbcd2a583c2bbf5ca6d733 ; affected d6a929b7608ae157cef86d00cc580d1038f0b985 < d2a786efdb9971f2a647724625da5bbecc994dc9 ; affected d6a929b7608ae157cef86d00cc580d1038f0b985 < 0dcf33994b8dcf3db36530fb7e2cf9f89e5cbac3 ; affected d6a929b7608ae157cef86d00cc580d1038f0b985 < d5d9df8b08d68d083ac57abc2c887dfb1f31af63 ; affected d6a929b7608ae157cef86d00cc580d1038f0b985 < 65c528fbeddd88478c210052f6c7b21be4973156 ; affected d6a929b7608ae157cef86d00cc580d1038f0b985 < 34c8b3a91bdfbe4573650b4cd750ef639101fdc5
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.30 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.30 ; unaffected 5.10.253 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.203 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.168 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.134 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD