CVE-2026-80604: HID: core: Fix OOB read in hid_get_report for numbered reports

Published Aug 28, 2026
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Updated

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

HID: core: Fix OOB read in hidgetreport for numbered reports

When a caller passes a size of 0 to hidreportrawevent() for a numbered report, the function originally called hidgetreport() before performing any size validation.

Inside hidgetreport(), if the report is numbered (reportenum->numbered is true), it unconditionally dereferences data[0] to extract the report ID. With a size of 0, this results in an out-of-bounds read or kernel panic.

Fix this by moving the numbered report size validation check before the call to hidgetreport(), ensuring that size is at least 1 before dereferencing the data pointer.

Affected Software

1 affected component
Linux Linux kernel

Event History

Aug 28, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·06:48 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·06:48 AM
Description

Frequently Asked Questions

1

Which HID report configurations are affected?

The issue applies to numbered HID reports, where the report ID is read from the first byte of the input buffer. The described out-of-bounds read does not apply to reports that are not numbered.

2

What condition is needed to trigger the failure?

A caller must invoke hid_report_raw_event() with a zero-length input for a numbered report. Before the fix, the kernel could read data[0] despite the size being zero, resulting in an out-of-bounds read or kernel panic.

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