CVE-2025-38480 Affecting kernel-source-coco package, versions <6.4.0-15061.28.coco15sp6.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELSOURCECOCO-12100264
  • published21 Aug 2025
  • disclosed20 Aug 2025

Introduced: 20 Aug 2025

CVE-2025-38480  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-source-coco to version 6.4.0-15061.28.coco15sp6.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-source-coco package and not the kernel-source-coco package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.6 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

comedi: Fix use of uninitialized data in insn_rw_emulate_bits()

For Comedi INSN_READ and INSN_WRITE instructions on "digital" subdevices (subdevice types COMEDI_SUBD_DI, COMEDI_SUBD_DO, and COMEDI_SUBD_DIO), it is common for the subdevice driver not to have insn_read and insn_write handler functions, but to have an insn_bits handler function for handling Comedi INSN_BITS instructions. In that case, the subdevice's insn_read and/or insn_write function handler pointers are set to point to the insn_rw_emulate_bits() function by __comedi_device_postconfig().

For INSN_WRITE, insn_rw_emulate_bits() currently assumes that the supplied data[0] value is a valid copy from user memory. It will at least exist because do_insnlist_ioctl() and do_insn_ioctl() in "comedi_fops.c" ensure at lease MIN_SAMPLES (16) elements are allocated. However, if insn-&gt;n is 0 (which is allowable for INSN_READ and INSN_WRITE instructions, then data[0] may contain uninitialized data, and certainly contains invalid data, possibly from a different instruction in the array of instructions handled by do_insnlist_ioctl(). This will result in an incorrect value being written to the digital output channel (or to the digital input/output channel if configured as an output), and may be reflected in the internal saved state of the channel.

Fix it by returning 0 early if insn-&gt;n is 0, before reaching the code that accesses data[0]. Previously, the function always returned 1 on success, but it is supposed to be the number of data samples actually read or written up to insn-&gt;n, which is 0 in this case.

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