CVE-2025-38497 (GCVE-0-2025-38497)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-28 11:22 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:29
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Title
usb: gadget: configfs: Fix OOB read on empty string write
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: gadget: configfs: Fix OOB read on empty string write When writing an empty string to either 'qw_sign' or 'landingPage' sysfs attributes, the store functions attempt to access page[l - 1] before validating that the length 'l' is greater than zero. This patch fixes the vulnerability by adding a check at the beginning of os_desc_qw_sign_store() and webusb_landingPage_store() to handle the zero-length input case gracefully by returning immediately.
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Linux Linux Affected: 87213d388e927aaa88b21d5ff7e1f75ca2288da1 , < 78b41148cfea2a3f04d87adf3a71b21735820a37 (git)
Affected: 87213d388e927aaa88b21d5ff7e1f75ca2288da1 , < d68b7c8fefbaeae8f065b84e40cf64baf4cc0c76 (git)
Affected: 87213d388e927aaa88b21d5ff7e1f75ca2288da1 , < 15a87206879951712915c03c8952a73d6a74721e (git)
Affected: 87213d388e927aaa88b21d5ff7e1f75ca2288da1 , < 2798111f8e504ac747cce911226135d50b8de468 (git)
Affected: 87213d388e927aaa88b21d5ff7e1f75ca2288da1 , < 58bdd5160184645771553ea732da5c2887fc9bd1 (git)
Affected: 87213d388e927aaa88b21d5ff7e1f75ca2288da1 , < 783ea37b237a9b524f1e5ca018ea17d772ee0ea0 (git)
Affected: 87213d388e927aaa88b21d5ff7e1f75ca2288da1 , < 22b7897c289cc25d99c603f5144096142a30d897 (git)
Affected: 87213d388e927aaa88b21d5ff7e1f75ca2288da1 , < 3014168731b7930300aab656085af784edc861f6 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.297 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.241 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.190 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.147 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.100 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.40 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.8 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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