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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2025-39824

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 9/16/2025 9:16:01 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

HID: asus: fix UAF via HID_CLAIMED_INPUT validation

After hid_hw_start() is called hidinput_connect() will eventually be
called to set up the device with the input layer since the
HID_CONNECT_DEFAULT connect mask is used. During hidinput_connect()
all input and output reports are processed and corresponding hid_inputs
are allocated and configured via hidinput_configure_usages(). This
process involves slot tagging report fields and configuring usages
by setting relevant bits in the capability bitmaps. However it is possible
that the capability bitmaps are not set at all leading to the subsequent
hidinput_has_been_populated() check to fail leading to the freeing of the
hid_input and the underlying input device.

This becomes problematic because a malicious HID device like a
ASUS ROG N-Key keyboard can trigger the above scenario via a
specially crafted descriptor which then leads to a user-after-free
when the name of the freed input device is written to later on after
hid_hw_start(). Below, report 93 intentionally utilises the
HID_UP_UNDEFINED Usage Page which is skipped during usage
configuration, leading to the frees.

0x05, 0x0D,        // Usage Page (Digitizer)
0x09, 0x05,        // Usage (Touch Pad)
0xA1, 0x01,        // Collection (Application)
0x85, 0x0D,        //   Report ID (13)
0x06, 0x00, 0xFF,  //   Usage Page (Vendor Defined 0xFF00)
0x09, 0xC5,        //   Usage (0xC5)
0x15, 0x00,        //   Logical Minimum (0)
0x26, 0xFF, 0x00,  //   Logical Maximum (255)
0x75, 0x08,        //   Report Size (8)
0x95, 0x04,        //   Report Count (4)
0xB1, 0x02,        //   Feature (Data,Var,Abs)
0x85, 0x5D,        //   Report ID (93)
0x06, 0x00, 0x00,  //   Usage Page (Undefined)
0x09, 0x01,        //   Usage (0x01)
0x15, 0x00,        //   Logical Minimum (0)
0x26, 0xFF, 0x00,  //   Logical Maximum (255)
0x75, 0x08,        //   Report Size (8)
0x95, 0x1B,        //   Report Count (27)
0x81, 0x02,        //   Input (Data,Var,Abs)
0xC0,              // End Collection

Below is the KASAN splat after triggering the UAF:

[   21.672709] ==================================================================
[   21.673700] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in asus_probe+0xeeb/0xf80
[   21.673700] Write of size 8 at addr ffff88810a0ac000 by task kworker/1:2/54
[   21.673700]
[   21.673700] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 54 Comm: kworker/1:2 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc4-g9773391cf4dd-dirty #36 PREEMPT(voluntary)
[   21.673700] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
[   21.673700] Call Trace:
[   21.673700]  <TASK>
[   21.673700]  dump_stack_lvl+0x5f/0x80
[   21.673700]  print_report+0xd1/0x660
[   21.673700]  kasan_report+0xe5/0x120
[   21.673700]  __asan_report_store8_noabort+0x1b/0x30
[   21.673700]  asus_probe+0xeeb/0xf80
[   21.673700]  hid_device_probe+0x2ee/0x700
[   21.673700]  really_probe+0x1c6/0x6b0
[   21.673700]  __driver_probe_device+0x24f/0x310
[   21.673700]  driver_probe_device+0x4e/0x220
[...]
[   21.673700]
[   21.673700] Allocated by task 54:
[   21.673700]  kasan_save_stack+0x3d/0x60
[   21.673700]  kasan_save_track+0x18/0x40
[   21.673700]  kasan_save_alloc_info+0x3b/0x50
[   21.673700]  __kasan_kmalloc+0x9c/0xa0
[   21.673700]  __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x139/0x340
[   21.673700]  input_allocate_device+0x44/0x370
[   21.673700]  hidinput_connect+0xcb6/0x2630
[   21.673700]  hid_connect+0xf74/0x1d60
[   21.673700]  hid_hw_start+0x8c/0x110
[   21.673700]  asus_probe+0x5a3/0xf80
[   21.673700]  hid_device_probe+0x2ee/0x700
[   21.673700]  really_probe+0x1c6/0x6b0
[   21.673700]  __driver_probe_device+0x24f/0x310
[   21.673700]  driver_probe_device+0x4e/0x220
[...]
[   21.673700]
[   21.673700] Freed by task 54:
[   21.673700]  kasan_save_stack+0x3d/0x60
[   21.673700]  kasan_save_track+0x18/0x40
[   21.673700]  kasan_save_free_info+0x3f/0x60
[   21.673700]  __kasan_slab_free+0x3c/0x50
[   21.673700]  kfre
---truncated---
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f3c0839b173f7f33415eb098331879e547d1d2d
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7170122e2ae4ab378c9cdf7cc54dea8b0abbbca5
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72a4ec018c9e9bc52f4f80eb3afb5d6a6b752275
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a9e4a8317437bf944fa017c66e1e23a0368b5c7
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8ca8fe7f516d27ece3afb995c3bd4d07dcbe62c
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0d77e3441a92d0b4958193c9ac1c3f81c6f1d1c
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3af6ca9a8c34bbd8cff32b469b84c9021c9e7e4
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eaae728e7335b5dbad70966e2bd520a731fdf7b2