CVE-2026-98499 PUBLISHED

HID: wacom: fix OOB read in wacom_wac_pen_serial_enforce()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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

HID: wacom: fix OOB read in wacom_wac_pen_serial_enforce()

The 'wacom_wac_pen_serial_enforce()' function may calculate and pass an invalid offset to hid_field_extract(), resulting in memory reads at incorrect addresses -- possibly beyond the end of the report. If a field in the HID descriptor lists more usages than its Report Count actually reserves space for, the function's inner 'j' will walk past the end of the field:

<pre>for (i = 0; i < report->maxfield; i++) { for (j = 0; j < report->field[i]->maxusage; j++) { ... value = hid_field_extract(hdev, raw_data + 1, offset + j * size, size); </pre>

A descriptor listing 12288 usages against Report Count 1 has the loop extract the usage at index 12287 from bit offset 98296 -- about 12 KB past a 2-byte received report. The value is stored in wacom_wac->serial[0] and can reach userspace as an MSC_SERIAL event, making this an information disclosure.

Clamp the loop to field->report_count, the number of value slots the report holds. Value slots past the last declared usage are still scanned; they reuse that usage (HID 1.11, 6.2.2.8).

Verified on v6.12.105 with a UHID reproducer: a 2-byte report from such a descriptor trips KASAN before the patch and not after it.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 83417206427bdf0fef9fa69957807194f25923c3 to 9aa62f967b6a4bb30aa3b778e02c8a5ca6bcde51 (excl.)
  • affected from 83417206427bdf0fef9fa69957807194f25923c3 to 26471d954bbfbfb9032994f7f485802ee20e0582 (excl.)
  • affected from 83417206427bdf0fef9fa69957807194f25923c3 to 456afe4707e23cc114ad833197f63b52bb8fd1e7 (excl.)
  • affected from 83417206427bdf0fef9fa69957807194f25923c3 to 65e7c4b5366b770c60dfefac3f1d06e33a9e411e (excl.)
  • affected from 83417206427bdf0fef9fa69957807194f25923c3 to eaa7d29341ef4b91e84ad097562982288a7c376c (excl.)
  • affected from 83417206427bdf0fef9fa69957807194f25923c3 to c3129e6f26e18c0886ede7265f187a7ec289e1d1 (excl.)
  • affected from 83417206427bdf0fef9fa69957807194f25923c3 to 4b09b7c84b8633cd041181616bd15bf5e73c164d (excl.)
  • affected from 83417206427bdf0fef9fa69957807194f25923c3 to 9aa237cf66495b2426ddde8532e9b08a0ed83aaa (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.16 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.16 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.271 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.222 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.189 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.158 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.112 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.55 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.9 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc5 to * (incl.)

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