CVE-2026-80783 PUBLISHED

HID: magicmouse: prevent unbounded recursion in magicmouse_raw_event()

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: magicmouse: prevent unbounded recursion in magicmouse_raw_event()

magicmouse_raw_event() handles DOUBLE_REPORT_ID (0xf7) packets, which pack two touch reports into one, by splitting the packet and calling itself on each half. The only guard against runaway recursion is a "size < 1" check, which stops zero-sized calls but does not bound the recursion depth.

A malicious HID device that matches this driver can send a report starting with DOUBLE_REPORT_ID and filled with the sequence [0xf7, 0x00]. Each level consumes two bytes and recurses on the remainder, so an incoming report of up to HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE (16 KiB) drives roughly 8000 nested calls. That easily exhausts the 16 KiB kernel stack, leading to a stack overflow: a panic with CONFIG_VMAP_STACK, or memory corruption without it.

A double report only ever wraps two normal reports; it is never legitimately nested. Refuse to re-enter the DOUBLE_REPORT_ID case from a recursive call so the recursion depth is bounded to two, while all valid packets keep being parsed exactly as before.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from a462230e16acc8664145216da3c928d03556691a to 26c45abed62536aabf4033fb6d64cf72e93374e9 (excl.)
  • affected from a462230e16acc8664145216da3c928d03556691a to 8a10a624996f16628234306b46f0cf36707d78bd (excl.)
  • affected from a462230e16acc8664145216da3c928d03556691a to d16df755b4493b6d37803c628b2c621d096796a8 (excl.)
  • affected from a462230e16acc8664145216da3c928d03556691a to bec338b07beb883726b32192c8f01c601bc76fda (excl.)
  • affected from a462230e16acc8664145216da3c928d03556691a to 70589b0c005db003f6d8ae4db3c4d54fed7b83e4 (excl.)
  • affected from a462230e16acc8664145216da3c928d03556691a to a33a596d3ad8dfe6c96a368097a028abeee16c17 (excl.)
  • affected from a462230e16acc8664145216da3c928d03556691a to d095de37f78c5f32a4252ef0f99b84ba76550b86 (excl.)
  • affected from a462230e16acc8664145216da3c928d03556691a to db8d634128d2ba88d79c0b601e983ebe14bb0519 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 2.6.37 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 2.6.37 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.220 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.187 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.156 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.108 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.49 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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