CVE-2025-38494 (GCVE-0-2025-38494)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-28 11:22
Modified
2026-01-02 15:30
Severity ?
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.
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Linux Linux Version: 4fa5a7f76cc7b6ac87f57741edd2b124851d119f
Version: 4fa5a7f76cc7b6ac87f57741edd2b124851d119f
Version: 4fa5a7f76cc7b6ac87f57741edd2b124851d119f
Version: 4fa5a7f76cc7b6ac87f57741edd2b124851d119f
Version: 4fa5a7f76cc7b6ac87f57741edd2b124851d119f
Version: 4fa5a7f76cc7b6ac87f57741edd2b124851d119f
Version: 4fa5a7f76cc7b6ac87f57741edd2b124851d119f
Version: 4fa5a7f76cc7b6ac87f57741edd2b124851d119f
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