# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-37862"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-09T06:42:07.941Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:16:32.976Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37862"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37862.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37862"
title: "HID: pidff: Fix null pointer dereference in pidff_find_fields"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nHID: pidff: Fix null pointer dereference in pidff_find_fields\n\nThis function triggered a null pointer dereference if used to search for\na report that isn't implemented on the device. This happened both for\noptional and required reports alike.\n\nThe same logic was applied to pidff_find_special_field and although\npidff_init_fields should return an error earlier if one of the required\nreports is missing, future modifications could change this logic and\nresurface this possible null pointer dereference again.\n\nLKML bug report:\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/all/CAL-gK7f5=R0nrrQdPtaZZr1fd-cdAMbDMuZ_NLA8vM0SX+nGSw@mail.gmail.com"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"224ee88fe39564358ec99b46bf3ee6e6999ae17d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"44a1b8b2027afbb37e418993fb23561bdb9efb38"},{"version":"224ee88fe39564358ec99b46bf3ee6e6999ae17d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d230becb9d38b7325c5c38d051693e4c26b1829b"},{"version":"224ee88fe39564358ec99b46bf3ee6e6999ae17d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6b4449e4f03326fbd2136e67bfcc1e6ffe61541d"},{"version":"224ee88fe39564358ec99b46bf3ee6e6999ae17d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ddb147885225d768025f6818df533d30edf3e102"},{"version":"224ee88fe39564358ec99b46bf3ee6e6999ae17d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"be706a48bb7896d4130edc82811233d1d62158e7"},{"version":"224ee88fe39564358ec99b46bf3ee6e6999ae17d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f8f4d77710e1c38f4a2bd26c88c4878b5b5e817a"},{"version":"224ee88fe39564358ec99b46bf3ee6e6999ae17d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3a507184f9307e19cb441b897c49e7843c94e56b"},{"version":"224ee88fe39564358ec99b46bf3ee6e6999ae17d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e368698da79af821f18c099520deab1219c2044b"},{"version":"224ee88fe39564358ec99b46bf3ee6e6999ae17d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"22a05462c3d0eee15154faf8d13c49e6295270a5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.19"},{"version":"5.4.293","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.237","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.181","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.135","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.88","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.24","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.13.*"},{"version":"6.14.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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