CVE-2026-90197 PUBLISHED

HID: haptic: don't write an uninitialized value to unhandled usages

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

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

HID: haptic: don't write an uninitialized value to unhandled usages

fill_effect_buf() initializes value only for the four haptic usages handled by its switch, but writes it to field->value[] for every usage. An unhandled usage can therefore receive either an uninitialized value or one left over from the previous usage. hid_output_report() then serializes that value into the effect's report buffer.

Skip unhandled usages instead. This also matches switch_mode(), which only updates fields it recognizes.

Found with Clang's -Wconditional-uninitialized.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 344ff358495706abc7aac1e0c59a5bb16b350307 to 324cc98b71f0d3dee7367ef3c669fd80747e71b6 (excl.)
  • affected from 344ff358495706abc7aac1e0c59a5bb16b350307 to 2d92c250815cba6bffd64f0125fac7afe4fa6ce0 (excl.)
  • affected from 344ff358495706abc7aac1e0c59a5bb16b350307 to 3efb7f6491526f5012f9ec94769e9ed832feeef8 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.18 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.18 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.52 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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