CVE-2025-38556

Published: August 21, 2025Last modified: August 21, 2025

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.

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• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/865ad8469fa24de1559f247d9426ab01e5ce3a56
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b4a94b1510f6a46ec48494b52ee8f67eb4fc836
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6b87bfc2ab5bccb7ad953693c85d9062aef3fdd
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3b504146c111548ab60b6ef7aad00bfb1db05a2