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Echo: linux: security update to 6.1.153-1

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 462958

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: asus: fix UAF via
 HID_CLAIMED_INPUT validation After hid_hw_start() is called hidinput_connect() will eventually be called
 to set up the device with the input layer since the HID_CONNECT_DEFAULT connect mask is used. During
 hidinput_connect() all input and output reports are processed and corresponding hid_inputs are allocated
 and configured via hidinput_configure_usages(). This process involves slot tagging report fields and
 configuring usages by setting relevant bits in the capability bitmaps. However it is possible that the
 capability bitmaps are not set at all leading to the subsequent hidinput_has_been_populated() check to
 fail leading to the freeing of the hid_input and the underlying input device. This becomes problematic
 because a malicious HID device like a ASUS ROG N-Key keyboard can trigger the above scenario via a
 specially crafted descriptor which then leads to a user-after-free when the name of the freed input device
 is written to later on after hid_hw_start(). Below, report 93 intentionally utilises the HID_UP_UNDEFINED
 Usage Page which is skipped during usage configuration, leading to the frees. 0x05, 0x0D, // Usage Page
 (Digitizer) 0x09, 0x05, // Usage (Touch Pad) 0xA1, 0x01, // Collection (Application) 0x85, 0x0D, // Report
 ID (13) 0x06, 0x00, 0xFF, // Usage Page (Vendor Defined 0xFF00) 0x09, 0xC5, // Usage (0xC5) 0x15, 0x00, //
 Logical Minimum (0) 0x26, 0xFF, 0x00, // Logical Maximum (255) 0x75, 0x08, // Report Size (8) 0x95, 0x04,
 // Report Count (4) 0xB1, 0x02, // Feature (Data,Var,Abs) 0x85, 0x5D, // Report ID (93) 0x06, 0x00, 0x00,
 // Usage Page (Undefined) 0x09, 0x01, // Usage (0x01) 0x15, 0x00, // Logical Minimum (0) 0x26, 0xFF, 0x00,
 // Logical Maximum (255) 0x75, 0x08, // Report Size (8) 0x95, 0x1B, // Report Count (27) 0x81, 0x02, //
 Input (Data,Var,Abs) 0xC0, // End Collection Below is the KASAN splat after triggering the UAF: [
 21.672709] ================================================================== [ 21.673700] BUG: KASAN:
 slab-use-after-free in asus_probe+0xeeb/0xf80 [ 21.673700] Write of size 8 at addr ffff88810a0ac000 by
 task kworker/1:2/54 [ 21.673700] [ 21.673700] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 54 Comm: kworker/1:2 Not tainted
 6.16.0-rc4-g9773391cf4dd-dirty #36 PREEMPT(voluntary) [ 21.673700] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX
 + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014 [ 21.673700] Call Trace: [ 21.673700] <TASK> [
 21.673700] dump_stack_lvl+0x5f/0x80 [ 21.673700] print_report+0xd1/0x660 [ 21.673700]
 kasan_report+0xe5/0x120 [ 21.673700] __asan_report_store8_noabort+0x1b/0x30 [ 21.673700]
 asus_probe+0xeeb/0xf80 [ 21.673700] hid_device_probe+0x2ee/0x700 [ 21.673700] really_probe+0x1c6/0x6b0 [
 21.673700] __driver_probe_device+0x24f/0x310 [ 21.673700] driver_probe_device+0x4e/0x220 [...] [
 21.673700] [ 21.673700] Allocated by task 54: [ 21.673700] kasan_save_stack+0x3d/0x60 [ 21.673700]
 kasan_save_track+0x18/0x40 [ 21.673700] kasan_save_alloc_info+0x3b/0x50 [ 21.673700]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x9c/0xa0 [ 21.673700] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x139/0x340 [ 21.673700]
 input_allocate_device+0x44/0x370 [ 21.673700] hidinput_connect+0xcb6/0x2630 [ 21.673700]
 hid_connect+0xf74/0x1d60 [ 21.673700] hid_hw_start+0x8c/0x110 [ 21.673700] asus_probe+0x5a3/0xf80 [
 21.673700] hid_device_probe+0x2ee/0x700 [ 21.673700] really_probe+0x1c6/0x6b0 [ 21.673700]
 __driver_probe_device+0x24f/0x310 [ 21.673700] driver_probe_device+0x4e/0x220 [...] [ 21.673700] [
 21.673700] Freed by task 54: [ 21.673700] kasan_save_stack+0x3d/0x60 [ 21.673700]
 kasan_save_track+0x18/0x40 [ 21.673700] kasan_save_free_info+0x3f/0x60 [ 21.673700]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x3c/0x50 [ 21.673700] kfre ---truncated--- (CVE-2025-39824)

Solution

Update the linux library and its related packages to version 6.1.153-1 or later.

See Also

https://advisory.echohq.com/cve/CVE-2025-39824

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 462958

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/2/2026

Updated: 10/2/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 96.95

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-39824

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/17/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/15/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-39824