CVE-2025-40016
CVE-2025-40016CVE-2025-40016
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: uvcvideo: Mark invalid entities with id UVC_INVALID_ENTITY_ID
Per UVC 1.1+ specification 3.7.2, units and terminals must have a non-zero
unique ID.
```
Each Unit and Terminal within the video function is assigned a unique
identification number, the Unit ID (UID) or Terminal ID (TID), contained in
the bUnitID or bTerminalID field of the descriptor. The value 0x00 is
reserved for undefined ID,
```
If we add a new entity with id 0 or a duplicated ID, it will be marked
as UVC_INVALID_ENTITY_ID.
In a previous attempt commit 3dd075fe8ebb ("media: uvcvideo: Require
entities to have a non-zero unique ID"), we ignored all the invalid units,
this broke a lot of non-compatible cameras. Hopefully we are more lucky
this time.
This also prevents some syzkaller reproducers from triggering warnings due
to a chain of entities referring to themselves. In one particular case, an
Output Unit is connected to an Input Unit, bot
Scoring
| Last modified | 2026-10-19 |