CVE-2026-74683

Input: evdev - sanitize event type index when fetching event masks

N/A
Published: August 22, 2026 at 03:32 PM UTC
Updated: October 14, 2026 at 01:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Input: evdev - sanitize event type index when fetching event masks The user-supplied event type index passed to EVIOCGMASK / EVIOCSMASK ioctls is used to index the static counts array in evdev_get_mask_cnt() and client evmasks array in evdev_get_mask(). While the event type is architecturally bounded by EV_CNT, speculative execution may mispredict bounds checks and perform out-of-bounds loads. Sanitize the event type index in evdev_get_mask_cnt() branchlessly using array_index_mask_nospec(). This clamps the index to 0 for safe array access and forces the returned count to 0 speculatively when the index is out of bounds. We do not need additional array_index_nospec() calls in evdev_get_mask() because evdev_get_mask_cnt() speculatively forces the count (and resulting xfer_size) to 0 for out-of-bounds types, preventing any speculative memory access to client evmasks array.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

06a16293f71927f756dcf37558a79c0b05a916414.46a16293f71927f756dcf37558a79c0b5a91641
Vendor states this is fixed in 3abd29c61d2ef37c4102cf755b18be53bb9dbea6 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4034ef247a9dde3f56660b01f0c3280dac6b1274 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 433913b4a92214d76e9f0c03ad9128fec943d5f8 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5db341189bb7ff041d570dbe36ecca7e32913927 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 810e1883d4815f29c30d900ad7333d03cc2515d1 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c79b08d8fa230871a3634e34a66e591ac2d084ef (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in f27fa9b39f925d26e034a1f382cb45523138f4ae (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in f3fc329acad9a71b3c077237cbac20670d2358c8 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.265 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.216 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.183 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.104 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.45 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.152 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.9 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

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