CVE-2025-38478 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-12100460
  • published21 Aug 2025
  • disclosed20 Aug 2025

Introduced: 20 Aug 2025

CVE-2025-38478  (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 initialization of data for instructions that write to subdevice

Some Comedi subdevice instruction handlers are known to access instruction data elements beyond the first insn-&gt;n elements in some cases. The do_insn_ioctl() and do_insnlist_ioctl() functions allocate at least MIN_SAMPLES (16) data elements to deal with this, but they do not initialize all of that. For Comedi instruction codes that write to the subdevice, the first insn-&gt;n data elements are copied from user-space, but the remaining elements are left uninitialized. That could be a problem if the subdevice instruction handler reads the uninitialized data. Ensure that the first MIN_SAMPLES elements are initialized before calling these instruction handlers, filling the uncopied elements with 0. For do_insnlist_ioctl(), the same data buffer elements are used for handling a list of instructions, so ensure the first MIN_SAMPLES elements are initialized for each instruction that writes to the subdevice.

CVSS Base Scores

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