CVE-2025-40106

comedi: fix divide-by-zero in comedi_buf_munge()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 31, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

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

comedi: fix divide-by-zero in comedi_buf_munge()

The comedi_buf_munge() function performs a modulo operation `async->munge_chan %= async->cmd.chanlist_len` without first checking if chanlist_len is zero. If a user program submits a command with chanlist_len set to zero, this causes a divide-by-zero error when the device processes data in the interrupt handler path.

Add a check for zero chanlist_len at the beginning of the function, similar to the existing checks for !map and CMDF_RAWDATA flag. When chanlist_len is zero, update munge_count and return early, indicating the data was handled without munging.

This prevents potential kernel panics from malformed user commands.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 to before 4ffea48c69cb2b96a281cb7e5e42d706996631dbAffected
  • ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 to before 8f3e4cd9be4b47246ea73ce5e3e0fa2f57f0d10cAffected
  • ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 to before 2670932f2465793fea1ef073e40883e8390fa4d9Affected
  • ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 to before 6db19822512396be1a3e1e20c16c97270285ba1aAffected
  • ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 to before d4854eff25efb06d0d84c13e7129bbdba4125f8cAffected
  • ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 to before a4bb5d1bc2f238461bcbe5303eb500466690bb2cAffected
  • ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 to before 55520f65fd447e04099a2c44185453c18ea73b7eAffected
  • ed9eccbe8970f6eedc1b978c157caf1251a896d4 to before 87b318ba81dda2ee7b603f4f6c55e78ec3e95974Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.29Affected
  • before 2.6.29Not affected
  • 5.4.301 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.246 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.196 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.158 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.115 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.56 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.17.6 through 6.17.*Not affected
  • 6.18 and laterNot affected

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