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CVE-2022-48978 — Linux Linux Kernel security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: core: fix shift-out-of-bounds in hid_report_raw_event Syzbot reported shift-out-of-bounds in hid_report_raw_event. microsoft 0003:045E:07DA.0001: hid_field_extract() called with n (128) > 32! (swapper/0) ====================================================================== UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in drivers/hid/hid-core.c:1323:20 shift exponent 127 is too large for 32-bit type 'int' CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc4-syzkaller-00159-g4bbf3422df78 #0 Hardware name: Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022 Call Trace: <IRQ> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x1e3/0x2cb lib/dump_stack.c:106 ubsan_epilogue lib/ubsan.c:151 [inline] __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x3a6/0x420 lib/ubsan.c:322 snto32 drivers/hid/hid-core.c:1323 [inline] hid_input_fetch_field drivers/hid/hid-core.c:1572 [inline] hid_process_report drivers/hid/hid-core.c:1665 [inline] hid_report_raw_event+0xd56/0x18b0 drivers/hid/hid-core.c:1998 hid_input_report+0x408/0x4f0 drivers/hid/hid-core.c:2066 hid_irq_in+0x459/0x690 drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c:284 __usb_hcd_giveback_urb…

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.5 (3.1)
Published
2024-10-21
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
linux/kernel

Affected products

  • linux / linux_kernel
  • linux / linux_kernel / 6.1

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Matched remediation archetype

Buffer bounds, memory safety, and memory corruption

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Check exposure

  • Identify affected native-code versions, build flags, architectures, parsers, codecs, drivers, and input paths in all shipped artifacts.
  • Determine whether untrusted data reaches the affected routine and the process privilege, sandbox, and network exposure.
  • Confirm statically linked, vendored, firmware, and platform-provided copies, not only package-manager records.

Remediate safely

  • Apply the maintained upstream correction or replace the affected component, then rebuild every dependent artifact from clean inputs.
  • Adopt bounds-checked interfaces, validated sizes and integer conversions, clear ownership, and memory-safe components where practical.
  • Enable supported compiler and runtime hardening and add sanitized tests and fuzz regression seeds derived from non-weaponized fixtures.

Authoritative sources

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