CVE-2026-80767 PUBLISHED

HID: sensor: custom: Fix use-after-free in enable_sensor

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 26.08.2026 Published: 04.09.2026 Updated: 04.09.2026

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

HID: sensor: custom: Fix use-after-free in enable_sensor

enable_sensor_store() can call set_power_report_state(), which dereferences sensor_inst->power_state and sensor_inst->report_state. These pointers refer to entries in sensor_inst->fields.

Create the field attributes before exposing the enable_sensor sysfs attribute, so enable_sensor cannot be accessed before the state it depends on has been initialized.

On remove, delete enable_sensor before freeing the field attributes, so a concurrent sysfs write cannot dereference freed memory through power_state or report_state.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 4a7de0519df5e8fb89cef6ee062330ffe4b50a4d to c2be74b0272b7f8f60739e7aaf0d36c0befe7136 (excl.)
  • affected from 4a7de0519df5e8fb89cef6ee062330ffe4b50a4d to d7cbea1d342a16ec96d9eb3d7bd0ba2d4b2f2855 (excl.)
  • affected from 4a7de0519df5e8fb89cef6ee062330ffe4b50a4d to d37ff4e3635c18af907f25712596f8ccec323751 (excl.)
  • affected from 4a7de0519df5e8fb89cef6ee062330ffe4b50a4d to 2ce90cfc6646a32100feabd7110ae0352aa01167 (excl.)
  • affected from 4a7de0519df5e8fb89cef6ee062330ffe4b50a4d to 244a1cb638370490ed74a8adb5cc3f1212602e32 (excl.)
  • affected from 4a7de0519df5e8fb89cef6ee062330ffe4b50a4d to 8406d4b69d48bc72fb6f8812a65a17a1f903440b (excl.)
  • affected from 4a7de0519df5e8fb89cef6ee062330ffe4b50a4d to c0757f10610542d763bd0bf9bda455b78afeef0b (excl.)
  • affected from 4a7de0519df5e8fb89cef6ee062330ffe4b50a4d to 7bb79a3cf45e0805aef74457e19deb77e18cf196 (excl.)
  • affected from 4a7de0519df5e8fb89cef6ee062330ffe4b50a4d to ad8fb82b04422f49530d2aa2753cc81d1c60102c (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.1 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.1 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.267 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.218 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.185 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.154 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.106 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.47 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.11 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.1 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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