# CVE-2023-53703: HID: amd\_sfh: Fix for shift-out-of-bounds

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-10-22 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 6.0

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: amd_sfh: Fix for shift-out-of-bounds Shift operation of 'exp' and 'shift' variables exceeds the maximum number of shift values in the u32 range leading to UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds. ... [ 6.120512] UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in drivers/hid/amd-sfh-hid/sfh1_1/amd_sfh_desc.c:149:50 [ 6.120598] shift exponent 104 is too large for 64-bit type 'long unsigned int' [ 6.120659] CPU: 4 PID: 96 Comm: kworker/4:1 Not tainted 6.4.0amd_1-next-20230519-dirty #10 [ 6.120665] Hardware name: AMD Birman-PHX/Birman-PHX, BIOS SFH_with_HPD_SEN.FD 04/05/2023 [ 6.120667] Workqueue: events amd_sfh_work_buffer [amd_sfh] [ 6.120687] Call Trace: [ 6.120690] <TASK> [ 6.120694] dump_stack_lvl+0x48/0x70 [ 6.120704] dump_stack+0x10/0x20 [ 6.120707] ubsan_epilogue+0x9/0x40 [ 6.120716] __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x10f/0x170 [ 6.120720] ? psi_group_change+0x25f/0x4b0 [ 6.120729] float_to_int.cold+0x18/0xba [amd_sfh] [ 6.120739] get_input_rep+0x57/0x340 [amd_sfh] [ 6.120748] ? __schedule+0xba7/0x1b60 [ 6.120756] ? __pfx_get_input_rep+0x10/0x10 [amd_sfh] [ 6.120764] amd_sfh_work_buffer+0x91/0x180 [amd_sfh] [ 6.120772] process_one_work+0x229/0x430 [ 6.120780] worker_thread+0x4a/0x3c0 [ 6.120784] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 [ 6.120788] kthread+0xf7/0x130 [ 6.120792] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 6.120795] ret_from_fork+0x29/0x50 [ 6.120804] </TASK> ... Fix this by adding the condition to validate shift ranges.

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a45ed1ae34bb0e68944471f4bafb68e0a572791
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e50bc2c177d4b2953d77037ac46ea0702d6aa1f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87854366176403438d01f368b09de3ec2234e0f5

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