CVE-2025-38540: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: quirks: Add quirk for 2 Chicony Electronics HP 5MP Cameras The Chicony Electronics HP 5MP Cameras (USB ID 04F2:B824 & 04F2:B82C) report a HID sensor interface that is not actually implemented. Attempting to access this non-functional sensor via iio_info causes system hangs as runtime PM tries to wake up an unresponsive sensor. Add these 2 devices to the HID ignore list since the sensor interface is non-functional by design and should not be exposed to userspace.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 11.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: from 3.8, before 5.4.296 (fixed in 5.4.296); from 5.5, before 5.10.240 (fixed in 5.10.240); from 5.11, before 5.15.189 (fixed in 5.15.189); from 5.16, before 6.1.146 (fixed in 6.1.146); from 6.2, before 6.6.99 (fixed in 6.6.99); from 6.7, before 6.12.39 (fixed in 6.12.39); …

Published 2025-08-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.