{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2026-31750","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","state":"PUBLISHED","assignerShortName":"Linux","dateReserved":"2026-03-09T15:48:24.139Z","datePublished":"2026-05-01T14:14:42.887Z","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T22:15:04.978Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","shortName":"Linux","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T22:15:04.978Z"},"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncomedi: runflags cannot determine whether to reclaim chanlist\n\nsyzbot reported a memory leak [1], because commit 4e1da516debb (\"comedi:\nAdd reference counting for Comedi command handling\") did not consider\nthe exceptional exit case in do_cmd_ioctl() where runflags is not set.\nThis caused chanlist not to be properly freed by do_become_nonbusy(),\nas it only frees chanlist when runflags is correctly set.\n\nAdded a check in do_become_nonbusy() for the case where runflags is not\nset, to properly free the chanlist memory.\n\n[1]\nBUG: memory leak\n  backtrace (crc 844a0efa):\n    __comedi_get_user_chanlist drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:1815 [inline]\n    do_cmd_ioctl.part.0+0x112/0x350 drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:1890\n    do_cmd_ioctl drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:1858 [inline]"}],"affected":[{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c"],"versions":[{"version":"4e1da516debbe6a573ffa0392e2809d180d0575c","lessThan":"830c848aba9f047eb6b34288975ebeb8e8621451","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4e1da516debbe6a573ffa0392e2809d180d0575c","lessThan":"29f644f14b89e6c4965e3c89251929e451190a66","status":"affected","versionType":"git"}]},{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c"],"versions":[{"version":"6.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","lessThan":"6.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.19.12","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.0","lessThanOrEqual":"*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}]}],"cpeApplicability":[{"nodes":[{"operator":"OR","negate":false,"cpeMatch":[{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"6.19","versionEndExcluding":"6.19.12"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"6.19","versionEndExcluding":"7.0"}]}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/830c848aba9f047eb6b34288975ebeb8e8621451"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29f644f14b89e6c4965e3c89251929e451190a66"}],"title":"comedi: runflags cannot determine whether to reclaim chanlist","x_generator":{"engine":"bippy-1.2.0"}}}}