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staging: gpib: fix unset padding field copy back to userspace

Type: advisorySources: OSV

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: gpib: fix unset padding field copy back to userspace The introduction of a padding field in the gpib_board_info_ioctl is showing up as initialized data on the stack frame being copyied back to userspace in function board_info_ioctl. The simplest fix is to initialize the entire struct to zero to ensure all unassigned padding fields are zero'd before being copied back to userspace.

Products
Kernel
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
6.16.1
CVEs
CVE-2025-38613
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
7 Nov 2026, 18:19 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

staging: gpib: fix unset padding field copy back to userspace

core-osv · Original source

Published 19 Aug 2025, 17:03 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: gpib: fix unset padding field copy back to userspace The introduction of a padding field in the gpib_board_info_ioctl is showing up as initialized data on the stack frame being copyied back to userspace in function board_info_ioctl. The simplest fix is to initialize the entire struct to zero to ensure all unassigned padding fields are zero'd before being copied back to userspace.

osv:CVE-2025-38613

Kernel

Fixed versions: 6.16.1

Complete source record
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