CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-64271
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-07-25
- Last modified
- 2026-10-24
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-129
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Input: touchwin - reset the packet index on every complete packet
tw_interrupt() accumulates each non-zero serial byte into a fixed
three-byte buffer with a running index that is only reset once a full
packet has been received *and* the device's two Y bytes agree:
tw->data[tw->idx++] = data;
if (tw->idx == TW_LENGTH && tw->data[1] == tw->data[2]) {
...
tw->idx = 0;
}
The reset is gated on tw->data[1] == tw->data[2], a value the device
controls. A malicious, malfunctioning or counterfeit Touchwindow
peripheral can stream non-zero bytes whose 2nd and 3rd bytes differ: the
index reaches TW_LENGTH without the equality holding, is never reset, and
keeps growing, so tw->data[tw->idx++] walks off the end of the three-byte
array and the rest of the heap-allocated struct tw, one attacker-chosen
byte at a time -- an unbounded, device-driven heap out-of-bounds write.
Reset the index on every completed packet and report an event only when
the two Y bytes match, like the other serio touchscreen drivers do.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.19 < 5.10.261)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.212)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.178)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.145)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.96)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.39)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.1.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-129 Improper Validation of Array Index weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/044167cba2384bcd783547ad5e30ecd292b30919 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e6f007b43e2fc6546e21fa74ee62c38984a6672 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/431ad239f2924dff337c3fccb9246597c1b63185 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/478cdd736f2ce3114f90e775d7358136d3977b94 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c9f29f128dd4057404838259af4c645318487e1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70e4248793762df9832fd4fc2fc6ac7924572c36 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8d87184576c889759e3aab899799a482f1e1a5b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed9b66905407eb3d02df1aaeed82eb7a7f0eb508 Patch