CVE-2026-31520 (GCVE-0-2026-31520)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-22 13:54
Modified
2026-04-23 15:18
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: apple: avoid memory leak in apple_report_fixup() The apple_report_fixup() function was returning a newly kmemdup()-allocated buffer, but never freeing it. The caller of report_fixup() does not take ownership of the returned pointer, but it *is* permitted to return a sub-portion of the input rdesc, whose lifetime is managed by the caller.
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Linux Linux Version: 6e143293e17a73c9313f91c5ca3aaacbaef030cf
Version: 6e143293e17a73c9313f91c5ca3aaacbaef030cf
Version: 6e143293e17a73c9313f91c5ca3aaacbaef030cf
Version: 6e143293e17a73c9313f91c5ca3aaacbaef030cf
Version: 6e143293e17a73c9313f91c5ca3aaacbaef030cf
Version: 6e143293e17a73c9313f91c5ca3aaacbaef030cf
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