DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38556

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CVE-2025-38556
Published: 19 Aug 2025, 17:15
Last modified:28 Apr 2026, 20:30

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
28/100
CVSS Score
7.1 HIGH
3.1 (osv_debian)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

19 Aug 2025, 17:15
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
28 Apr 2026, 20:30
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: core: Harden s32ton() against conversion to 0 bits Testing by the syzbot fuzzer showed that the HID core gets a shift-out-of-bounds exception when it tries to convert a 32-bit quantity to a 0-bit quantity. Ideally this should never occur, but there are buggy devices and some might have a report field with size set to zero; we shouldn't reject the report or the device just because of that. Instead, harden the s32ton() routine so that it returns a reasonable result instead of crashing when it is called with the number of bits set to 0 -- the same as what snto32() does.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Affected Systems

  • debian•linux

    all | < 5.10.249-1 | < 6.1.159-1 | < 6.12.48-1 | < 6.16.3-1

  • debian•linux-6.1

    < 6.1.159-1~deb11u1

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