CVE-2025-39818

medium

Published 2026-03-17 · Modified 2026-03-20

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: intel-thc-hid: intel-thc: Fix incorrect pointer arithmetic in I2C regs save Improper use of secondary pointer (&dev->i2c_subip_regs) caused kernel crash and out-of-bounds error: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in _regmap_bulk_read+0x449/0x510 Write of size 4 at addr ffff888136005dc0 by task kworker/u33:5/5107 CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 5107 Comm: kworker/u33:5 Not tainted 6.16.0+ #3 PREEMPT(voluntary) Workqueue: async async_run_entry_fn Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x76/0xa0 print_report+0xd1/0x660 ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10 ? kasan_complete_mode_report_info+0x26/0x200 kasan_report+0xe1/0x120 ? _regmap_bulk_read+0x449/0x510 ? _regmap_bulk_read+0x449/0x510 __asan_report_store4_noabort+0x17/0x30 _regmap_bulk_read+0x449/0x510 ? __pfx__regmap_bulk_read+0x10/0x10 regmap_bulk_read+0x270/0x3d0 pio_complete+0x1ee/0x2c0 [intel_thc] ? __pfx_pio_complete+0x10/0x10 [intel_thc] ? __pfx_pio_wait+0x10/0x10 [intel_thc] ? regmap_update_bits_base+0x13b/0x1f0 thc_i2c_subip_pio_read+0x117/0x270 [intel_thc] thc_i2c_subip_regs_save+0xc2/0x140 [intel_thc] ? __pfx_thc_i2c_subip_regs_save+0x10/0x10 [intel_thc] [...] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888136005d00 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-rnd-12-192 of size 192 The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of allocated 192-byte region [ffff888136005d00, ffff888136005dc0) Replaced with direct array indexing (&dev->i2c_subip_regs[i]) to ensure safe memory access.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

AlmaLinux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	`kernel-doc-5.14.0-611.41.1.el9_7.noarch.rpm`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0`
sid	Fixed	`6.16.5-1`
forky	Fixed	`6.16.5-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`0`
bookworm	Fixed	`0`

Red Hat Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—

Rocky Linux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—

References

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