CVE-2026-31401 (GCVE-0-2026-31401)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-03 15:16
Modified
2026-08-05 12:22
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: bpf: prevent buffer overflow in hid_hw_request right now the returned value is considered to be always valid. However, when playing with HID-BPF, the return value can be arbitrary big, because it's the return value of dispatch_hid_bpf_raw_requests(), which calls the struct_ops and we have no guarantees that the value makes sense.
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Linux Linux Version: 8bd0488b5ea58655ad6fdcbe0408ef49b16882b1
Version: 8bd0488b5ea58655ad6fdcbe0408ef49b16882b1
Version: 8bd0488b5ea58655ad6fdcbe0408ef49b16882b1
Version: 8bd0488b5ea58655ad6fdcbe0408ef49b16882b1
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