HID: core: fix number/pointer type confusion on long items (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-80918
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At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.18 % · percentile 8 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: core: fix number/pointer type confusion on long items When fetch_item() is called by hid_scan_report() on an item with HID_ITEM_TAG_LONG, it stores a pointer to the item data in item->data.longdata instead of storing a value directly in item->data.{u8/u16/u32}. When item_udata() or item_sdata() encounters such an item, it incorrectly assumes that the item is in short format, and therefore returns the lower part of a kernel pointer reinterpreted as a number. When a HID device is connected whose descriptor contains a HID_GLOBAL_ITEM_TAG_REPORT_SIZE encoded in long format with size=4, this causes the lower half of a kernel pointer to be printed into dmesg as a number, like this: hid (null): invalid report_size 107953555 To fix it, let item_udata() and item_sdata() verify that the item is in short format. Note that this bug only affects hid_scan_report(), while the main parsing pass hid_parse_collections() will always bail out when encountering a long item. Sidenote: There are currently no users of data.longdata; maybe we should just remove any parsing of long-format descriptors as a follow-up.

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Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 3dc8fc083dbfeede7b63a0c07581192e97711365 < bed7fe3a936b6bdd84671385951397ca673cf6e7 ; affected 3dc8fc083dbfeede7b63a0c07581192e97711365 < aec2c2ec87d4ec1f098979f68cd81b29f031c8cb ; affected 3dc8fc083dbfeede7b63a0c07581192e97711365 < 634f498ea5d5e8e01f8d9414d4f45eeaf9ee1996 ; affected 3dc8fc083dbfeede7b63a0c07581192e97711365 < abec577de5fc16cd5caae42f97cdcd0983c06d66 ; affected 3dc8fc083dbfeede7b63a0c07581192e97711365 < dd8035dec26e98204d6e4a6e0cee5c4d329b3d7e ; affected 3dc8fc083dbfeede7b63a0c07581192e97711365 < 1fa1591efd417e39e5e164bebea8ca7a3837c469
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.12 ; unaffected 0 < 3.12 ; unaffected 5.10.267 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.218 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.185 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.154 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

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