CVE-2025-38494 (GCVE-0-2025-38494)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-28 11:22 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:29
VLAI
Title
HID: core: do not bypass hid_hw_raw_request
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: core: do not bypass hid_hw_raw_request hid_hw_raw_request() is actually useful to ensure the provided buffer and length are valid. Directly calling in the low level transport driver function bypassed those checks and allowed invalid paramto be used.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 4fa5a7f76cc7b6ac87f57741edd2b124851d119f , < dd8e8314f2ce225dade5248dcfb9e2ac0edda624 (git)
Affected: 4fa5a7f76cc7b6ac87f57741edd2b124851d119f , < 40e25aa7e4e0f2440c73a683ee448e41c7c344ed (git)
Affected: 4fa5a7f76cc7b6ac87f57741edd2b124851d119f , < f10923b8d32a473b229477b63f23bbd72b1e9910 (git)
Affected: 4fa5a7f76cc7b6ac87f57741edd2b124851d119f , < a62a895edb2bfebffa865b5129a66e3b4287f34f (git)
Affected: 4fa5a7f76cc7b6ac87f57741edd2b124851d119f , < 0e5017d84d650ca0eeaf4a3fe9264c5dbc886b81 (git)
Affected: 4fa5a7f76cc7b6ac87f57741edd2b124851d119f , < d18f63e848840100dbc351a82e7042eac5a28cf5 (git)
Affected: 4fa5a7f76cc7b6ac87f57741edd2b124851d119f , < 19d1314d46c0d8a5c08ab53ddeb62280c77698c0 (git)
Affected: 4fa5a7f76cc7b6ac87f57741edd2b124851d119f , < c2ca42f190b6714d6c481dfd3d9b62ea091c946b (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.297 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.241 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.190 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.147 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.100 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.40 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.8 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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