CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98860
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-10-18
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
HID: bpf: cast size to ssize_t when checking hid_bpf_hw_request
As reported by Sashiko:
If a transport driver encounters a hardware error and returns a negative
error code such as -EPIPE, ret is implicitly promoted to size_t when
compared against size. This causes the negative error code to evaluate
as a large positive number, making the (ret > size) condition true.
This silently converts the hardware error into a success return value
and copies the unmodified buffer back, which could leave BPF programs
operating on uninitialized or stale data.
Fix this by casting size into ssize_t to return the actual negative
error code.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3afefbfe55c2a8a0c4bdf6f4cc1f773da120027c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b85ef0f561039e249c3f883c5280a1449c6dbee git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97be6396817bd3b11d06239010d27902940bfaa9 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9f808227554b2c116fd07dd2328ecd74ea3f411 git.kernel.org