CVE-2025-39685: comedi: pcl726: Prevent invalid irq number

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-09-05 · updated 2026-10-19
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: comedi: pcl726: Prevent invalid irq number The reproducer passed in an irq number(0x80008000) that was too large, which triggered the oob. Added an interrupt number check to prevent users from passing in an irq number that was too large. If `it->options[1]` is 31, then `1 << it->options[1]` is still invalid because it shifts a 1-bit into the sign bit (which is UB in C). Possible solutions include reducing the upper bound on the `it->options[1]` value to 30 or lower, or using `1U << it->options[1]`. The old code would just not attempt to request the IRQ if the `options[1]` value were invalid. And it would still configure the device without interrupts even if the call to `request_irq` returned an error. So it would be better to combine this test with the test below.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 11.0
Linux kernel: from 3.13 before 5.15.190; from 5.16 before 6.1.149; from 6.2 before 6.6.103; from 6.7 before 6.12.44; from 6.13 before 6.16.4; 6.17-rc1, 6.17-rc2 — fixed in 5.15.190, 6.1.149, 6.12.44, 6.16.4, 6.6.103

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 5.15.190, 6.1.149, 6.12.44, 6.16.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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