Linux KernelOperating system · Linux
CVE-2025-39818
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedIn 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.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysisThe program writes past the bounds of a buffer, overwriting adjacent memory an attacker can turn to their advantage. Crafted input can overwrite control data and redirect execution. Remediation is validating every index and length before a write, plus modern memory-safety mitigations.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
Linux KernelOperating system
>= 6.14, < 6.16.5= 6.17CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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dbcve · scoped6.16.5
Linux Kernel 6.16.5 or later stable release
- Identify the current kernel version using 'uname -r' or 'cat /proc/version'
- Check if the system runs a vulnerable kernel version (>= 6.14, < 6.16.5, or = 6.17)
- For Debian/Ubuntu-based systems: run 'sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade' to install the latest stable kernel package, or manually install linux-image-[version] from the distribution's repository
- For RHEL/CentOS/Fedora-based systems: run 'sudo dnf update kernel' or 'sudo yum update kernel'
- For systems building from source: download Linux kernel 6.16.5 or later from https://www.kernel.org/, extract the source, configure, compile, and install the new kernel
- Reboot the system into the new kernel using 'sudo reboot'
- Verify the fix is applied by checking 'uname -r' shows version >= 6.16.5 or by confirming the patched commit 78d4cf0466c79452e47aa6f720afbde63e709ccc is in the kernel build
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