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CVE-2025-40035 (GCVE-0-2025-40035)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-28 11:48 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:41
VLAI
Title
Input: uinput - zero-initialize uinput_ff_upload_compat to avoid info leak
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Input: uinput - zero-initialize uinput_ff_upload_compat to avoid info leak Struct ff_effect_compat is embedded twice inside uinput_ff_upload_compat, contains internal padding. In particular, there is a hole after struct ff_replay to satisfy alignment requirements for the following union member. Without clearing the structure, copy_to_user() may leak stack data to userspace. Initialize ff_up_compat to zero before filling valid fields.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 2d56f3a32c0e62f99c043d2579840f9731fe5855 , < 1b317796013f666ae5040edbf0f230ec61496d42 (git)
Affected: 2d56f3a32c0e62f99c043d2579840f9731fe5855 , < 877172b97786ed1678640dff0b2d35abb328844c (git)
Affected: 2d56f3a32c0e62f99c043d2579840f9731fe5855 , < e63aade22a33e77b93c98c9f02db504d897a76b4 (git)
Affected: 2d56f3a32c0e62f99c043d2579840f9731fe5855 , < 933b87c4590b42500299f00ff55f555903056803 (git)
Affected: 2d56f3a32c0e62f99c043d2579840f9731fe5855 , < fd8a23ecbc602d00e47b27f20b07350867d0ebe5 (git)
Affected: 2d56f3a32c0e62f99c043d2579840f9731fe5855 , < 48c96b7e9e03516936d6deba54b5553097eae817 (git)
Affected: 2d56f3a32c0e62f99c043d2579840f9731fe5855 , < f5e1f3b85aadce74268c46676772c3e9fa79897e (git)
Affected: 2d56f3a32c0e62f99c043d2579840f9731fe5855 , < d3366a04770eea807f2826cbdb96934dd8c9bf79 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.29
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.29 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.301 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.246 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.195 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.156 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.112 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.53 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.3 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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