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CVE-2026-31751

MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVSS Score & Metrics

Base Score
4.7 / 10
Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Vulnerability Description

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

comedi: dt2815: add hardware detection to prevent crash

The dt2815 driver crashes when attached to I/O ports without actual
hardware present. This occurs because syzkaller or users can attach
the driver to arbitrary I/O addresses via COMEDI_DEVCONFIG ioctl.

When no hardware exists at the specified port, inb() operations return
0xff (floating bus), but outb() operations can trigger page faults due
to undefined behavior, especially under race conditions:

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 000000007fffff90
#PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
RIP: 0010:dt2815_attach+0x6e0/0x1110

Add hardware detection by reading the status register before attempting
any write operations. If the read returns 0xff, assume no hardware is
present and fail the attach with -ENODEV. This prevents crashes from
outb() operations on non-existent hardware.

Vulnerability Details

Published Date
Last Modified
CWE ID
CWE-362
Source
NVD
Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux

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