CVE-2025-21948 — HID: appleir: Fix potential NULL dereference at raw event handle

Affected: Linux

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

HID: appleir: Fix potential NULL dereference at raw event handle

Syzkaller reports a NULL pointer dereference issue in input_event().

BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:68 [inline] BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in _test_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-non-atomic.h:141 [inline] BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in is_event_supported drivers/input/input.c:67 [inline] BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in input_event+0x42/0xa0 drivers/input/input.c:395 Read of size 8 at addr 0000000000000028 by task syz-executor199/2949

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 2949 Comm: syz-executor199 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc4-syzkaller-00076-gf097a36ef88d #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024 Call Trace: <IRQ> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120 kasan_report+0xd9/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:602 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:183 [inline] kasan_check_range+0xef/0x1a0 mm/kasan/generic.c:189 instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:68 [inline] _test_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-non-atomic.h:141 [inline] is_event_supported drivers/input/input.c:67 [inline] input_event+0x42/0xa0 drivers/input/input.c:395 input_report_key include/linux/input.h:439 [inline] key_down drivers/hid/hid-appleir.c:159 [inline] appleir_raw_event+0x3e5/0x5e0 drivers/hid/hid-appleir.c:232…

USN-7510-1 — linux, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-intel-iotg, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15…

Affected: Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux-ibm-5.15, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux-oracle-5.15, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-gkeop, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-ibm, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-intel-iotg, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-kvm, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-lowlatency, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-nvidia and 1 more

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM64 architecture; - PowerPC architecture; - x86 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - Network block device driver; - Bus devices; - Character device driver; - TPM device driver; - Clock framework and drivers; - GPIO subsystem; - GPU drivers; - HID subsystem; - I2C subsystem; - InfiniBand drivers; - Media drivers; - NVIDIA Tegra memory controller driver; - Network drivers; - PCI subsystem; - PPS (Pulse Per Second) driver; - PTP clock framework; - RapidIO drivers; - Real Time Clock drivers; - SLIMbus drivers; - QCOM SoC drivers; - Trusted Execution Environment drivers; - TTY drivers; - USB DSL drivers; - USB Device Class drivers; - USB core drivers; - USB Gadget drivers; - USB Host Controller drivers; - Renesas USBHS Controller drivers; - ACRN Hypervisor Service Module driver; - File systems infrastructure; - BTRFS file system; - F2FS file system; - Network file system (NFS) server daemon; - NILFS2 file system; - Overlay file system; - SMB network file system; - UBI file system; - KVM subsystem; - L3 Master device support module; - Process Accounting mechanism; - Padata parallel execution mechanism; - printk logging mechanism; - Scheduler infrastructure; - Timer subsystem; - Tracing infrastructure…

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CVE-2025-21948 — HID: appleir: Fix potential NULL dereference at raw event handle

USN-7510-1 — linux, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-intel-iotg, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15…