Medium (5.5) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
comedi: runflags cannot determine whether to reclaim chanlist
syzbot reported a memory leak [1], because commit 4e1da516debb ("comedi:
Add reference counting for Comedi command handling") did not consider
the exceptional exit case in do_cmd_ioctl() where runflags is not set.
This caused chanlist not to be properly freed by do_become_nonbusy(),
as it only frees chanlist when runflags is correctly set.
Added a check in do_become_nonbusy() for the case where runflags is not
set, to properly free the chanlist memory.
[1]
BUG: memory leak
backtrace (crc 844a0efa):
__comedi_get_user_chanlist drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:1815 [inline]
do_cmd_ioctl.part.0+0x112/0x350 drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:1890
do_cmd_ioctl drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:1858 [inline]
Severity
CVSS 3.1
5.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 1% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)