HID: asus: avoid memory leak in asus_report_fixup() (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-31524
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.12 % · percentile 2 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: asus: avoid memory leak in asus_report_fixup() The asus_report_fixup() function was returning a newly allocated kmemdup()-allocated buffer, but never freeing it. Switch to devm_kzalloc() to ensure the memory is managed and freed automatically when the device is removed. The caller of report_fixup() does not take ownership of the returned pointer, but it is permitted to return a pointer whose lifetime is at least that of the input buffer. Also fix a harmless out-of-bounds read by copying only the original descriptor size.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 5703e52cc711bc01e72cf12b86a126909c79d213 < 726765b43deb2b4723869d673cc5fc6f7a3b2059 ; affected 5703e52cc711bc01e72cf12b86a126909c79d213 < ede95cfcab8064d9a08813fbd7ed42cea8843dcf ; affected 5703e52cc711bc01e72cf12b86a126909c79d213 < 2e4fe6b15c2f390c023b20d728b1a3fe7ea4f973 ; affected 5703e52cc711bc01e72cf12b86a126909c79d213 < f20f17cffbe34fb330267e0f8084f5565f807444 ; affected 5703e52cc711bc01e72cf12b86a126909c79d213 < 7a6d6e4d8af044f94fa97e97af5ff2771e1fbebd ; affected 5703e52cc711bc01e72cf12b86a126909c79d213 < a41cc7c1668e44ff2c2d36f9a6353253ffc43e3c
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.14 ; unaffected 0 < 4.14 ; unaffected 5.10.253 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.203 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.168 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.131 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD