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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 <bentiss@kernel.org> [bentiss: changed the return value]

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-05-01 | Published 2026-05-01 | Updated 2026-05-02 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

cd6104572bca9e4afe0dcdb8ecd65ef90b01297b (git) before 8f71034649738fdeb6859b8d6cddf132024fac06
affected

cd6104572bca9e4afe0dcdb8ecd65ef90b01297b (git) before bd6e1d0230cca9575f5d118148f51e2a56b5373f
affected

cd6104572bca9e4afe0dcdb8ecd65ef90b01297b (git) before 0a3fe972a7cb1404f693d6f1711f32bc1d244b1c
affected

Default status
affected

2.6.15
affected

Any version before 2.6.15
unaffected

6.18.22 (semver)
unaffected

6.19.12 (semver)
unaffected

7.0 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/8f71034649738fdeb6859b8d6cddf132024fac06

git.kernel.org/...c/bd6e1d0230cca9575f5d118148f51e2a56b5373f

git.kernel.org/...c/0a3fe972a7cb1404f693d6f1711f32bc1d244b1c

cve.org (CVE-2026-43048)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-43048)

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