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GHSA-GRCX-7J3G-CV8R

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-05-20 18:30 – Updated: 2025-11-17 15:30

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

HID: pidff: Make sure to fetch pool before checking SIMULTANEOUS_MAX

As noted by Anssi some 20 years ago, pool report is sometimes messed up. This worked fine on many devices but casued oops on VRS DirectForce PRO.

Here, we're making sure pool report is refetched before trying to access any of it's fields. While loop was replaced with a for loop + exit conditions were moved aroud to decrease the possibility of creating an infinite loop scenario.

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2025-37942 (GCVE-0-2025-37942)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-20 15:58 – Updated: 2025-05-26 05:24

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: pidff: Make sure to fetch pool before checking SIMULTANEOUS_MAX As noted by Anssi some 20 years ago, pool report is sometimes messed up. This worked fine on many devices but casued oops on VRS DirectForce PRO. Here, we're making sure pool report is refetched before trying to access any of it's fields. While loop was replaced with a for loop + exit conditions were moved aroud to decrease the possibility of creating an infinite loop scenario.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/211861869766a7bb7…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/344d903be8b5c0733…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6f5d30a5c7713238…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f650dcec32d22deb…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 211861869766a7bb7c72158aee0140ec67e182a7 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 344d903be8b5c0733ed0f4bc5be34b4a26d905c8 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < a6f5d30a5c7713238c5c65c98ad95dacb73688d5 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 1f650dcec32d22deb1d6db12300a2b98483099a9 (git)

Linux

Unaffected: 6.12.24 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13.12 , ≤ 6.13.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14.3 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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GHSA-GRCX-7J3G-CV8R

CVE-2025-37942 (GCVE-0-2025-37942)

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