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  - comedi: Fail COMEDI_INSNLIST ioctl if n_insns is too large The handling of the `COMEDI_INSNLIST` ioctl     allocates a kernel buffer to hold the array of `struct comedi_insn`, getting the length from the `n_insns`     member of the `struct comedi_insnlist` supplied by the user. The allocation will fail with a WARNING and a     stack dump if it is too large. Avoid that by failing with an `-EINVAL` error if the supplied `n_insns`     value is unreasonable. Define the limit on the `n_insns` value in the `MAX_INSNS` macro. Set this to the     same value as `MAX_SAMPLES` (65536), which is the maximum allowed sum of the values of the member `n` in     the array of `struct comedi_insn`, and sensible comedi instructions will have an `n` of at least 1.
    (CVE-2025-38481)

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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-38481

medium Nessus Plugin ID 252179

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Version 1.8 Oct 29, 2025, 3:03 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202510290303
Version 1.7 Oct 28, 2025, 5:56 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202510281756
Version 1.3 Sep 4, 2025, 5:30 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202509041730
Version 1.2 Sep 1, 2025, 12:37 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 6.6) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202509011237
Version 1.1 Aug 19, 2025, 8:36 AM New Plugin Feed: 202508190836