Medium severity · published Sep 4, 2025
CVE-2025-38687
comedi: fix race between polling and detaching
4.7
CVSS
0.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
comedi: fix race between polling and detaching
syzbot reports a use-after-free in comedi in the below link, which is
due to comedi gladly removing the allocated async area even though poll
requests are still active on the wait_queue_head inside of it. This can
cause a use-after-free when the poll entries are later triggered or
removed, as the memory for the wait_queue_head has been freed. We need
to check there are no tasks queued on any of the subdevices' wait queues
before allowing the device to be detached by the `COMEDI_DEVCONFIG`
ioctl.
Tasks will read-lock `dev->attach_lock` before adding themselves to the
subdevice wait queue, so fix the problem in the `COMEDI_DEVCONFIG` ioctl
handler by write-locking `dev->attach_lock` before checking that all of
the subdevices are safe to be deleted. This includes testing for any
sleepers on the subdevices' wait queues. It remains locked until the
device has been detached. This requires the `comedi_device_detach()`
function to be refactored slightly, moving the bulk of it into new
function `comedi_device_detach_locked()`.
Note that the refactor of `comedi_device_detach()` results in
`comedi_device_cancel_all()` now being called while `dev->attach_lock`
is write-locked, which wasn't the case previously, but that does not
matter.
Thanks to Jens Axboe for diagnosing the problem and co-developing this
patch.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.1% · higher than 2% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KE
Kernel · Linux
3.14 before 5.4.297; 5.5 before 5.10.241; 5.11 before 5.15.190; 5.16 before 6.1.149; 6.2 before 6.6.103; 6.7 before 6.12.43; +2 more · source: NVD
LI
Linux · Linux
2f3fdcd7ce935f6f2899ceab57dc8fe5286db3e1 before fe67122ba781df44a1a9716eb1dfd751321ab512; 2f3fdcd7ce935f6f2899ceab57dc8fe5286db3e1 before cd4286123d6948ff638ea9cd5818ae4796d5d252; 2f3fdcd7ce935f6f2899ceab57dc8fe5286db3e1 before d85fac8729c9acfd72368faff1d576ec585e5c8f; 2f3fdcd7ce935f6f2899ceab57dc8fe5286db3e1 before 0f989f9d05492028afd2bded4b42023c57d8a76e; 2f3fdcd7ce935f6f2899ceab57dc8fe5286db3e1 before 5c4a2ffcbd052c69bbf4680677d4c4eaa5a252d4; 2f3fdcd7ce935f6f2899ceab57dc8fe5286db3e1 before 017198079551a2a5cf61eae966af3c4b145e1f3b; +4 more · source: vendor
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
11.0 · source: NVD
SC
SIMATIC CN 4100 · Siemens
before V5.0 · source: CISA
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38687
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38687
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/017198079551a2a5cf61eae966af3c4b145e1f3b
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f989f9d05492028afd2bded4b42023c57d8a76e
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35b6fc51c666fc96355be5cd633ed0fe4ccf68b2
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5724e82df4f9a4be62908362c97d522d25de75dd
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c4a2ffcbd052c69bbf4680677d4c4eaa5a252d4
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/71ca60d2e631cf9c63bcbc7017961c61ff04e419
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