CVE-2025-38556

HID: core: Harden s32ton() against conversion to 0 bits

published August 19, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00172 · 6.2th percentile
Published
2025-08-19T17:02Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 AUG 17:02Z
    HID: core: Harden s32ton() against conversion to 0 bits
    cvelistv5