Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: core: Mitigate potential OOB by removing bogus memset() The memset() in hid_report_raw_event() has the good intention of clearing out bogus data by zeroing the area from the end of the incoming data string to the assumed end of the buffer. However, as we have previously seen, doing so can easily result in OOB reads and writes in the subsequent thread of execution. The current suggestion from one of the HID maintainers is to remove the memset() and simply return if the incoming event buffer size is not large enough to fill the associated report. Suggested-by Benjamin Tissoires <[email protected]> [bentiss: changed the return value]
Affected products
linux: linux kernel
References6
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a3fe972a7cb1404f693d6f1711f32bc1d244b1c Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f71034649738fdeb6859b8d6cddf132024fac06 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd6e1d0230cca9575f5d118148f51e2a56b5373f Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/218b93b7e284de1aa40a53f8f130f84f7da38858
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad4316edbc63949094edeee538517dd689df7b24
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b37e6019fe420335d884e30535549a25f084e00d
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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8.8
HIGH
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 25 · as of 13 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-125CWE-787
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