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CVE-2026-23178

HID: i2c-hid: fix potential buffer overflow in i2c_hid_get_report()

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.1.163, 6.6.124, 6.12.70, 6.18.10
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: i2c-hid: fix potential buffer overflow in i2c_hid_get_report() `i2c_hid_xfer` is used to read `recv_len + sizeof(__le16)` bytes of data into `ihid->rawbuf`. The former can come from the userspace in the hidraw driver and is only bounded by HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE(16384) by default (unless we also set `max_buffer_size` field of `struct hid_ll_driver` which we do not). The latter has size determined at runtime by the maximum size of different report types you could receive on any particular device and can be a much smaller value. Fix this by truncating `recv_len` to `ihid->bufsize - sizeof(__le16)`. The impact is low since access to hidraw devices requires root.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    From 85df713377ddc0482071c3e6b64c37bd1e48f1f1 · fixed in f9c9ad89d845f88a1509e9d672f65d234425fde9; From 85df713377ddc0482071c3e6b64c37bd1e48f1f1 · fixed in cff3f619fd1cb40cdd89971df9001f075613d219; From 85df713377ddc0482071c3e6b64c37bd1e48f1f1 · fixed in 786ec171788bdf9dda38789163f1b1fbb47f2d1e; From 85df713377ddc0482071c3e6b64c37bd1e48f1f1 · fixed in 2124279f1f8c32c1646ce98e75a1a39b23b7db76; From 85df713377ddc0482071c3e6b64c37bd1e48f1f1 · fixed in 2497ff38c530b1af0df5130ca9f5ab22c5e92f29

  • Linux Linux

    5.18

  • KernelLinux

    From 5.18.0 · fixed in 6.1.163; From 6.2.0 · fixed in 6.6.124; From 6.7.0 · fixed in 6.12.70; From 6.13.0 · fixed in 6.18.10

References 5

git.kernel.org