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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23178"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-02-14T16:27:10.108Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:25:34.295Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23178"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23178.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23178"
title: "HID: i2c-hid: fix potential buffer overflow in i2c_hid_get_report()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nHID: i2c-hid: fix potential buffer overflow in i2c_hid_get_report()\n\n`i2c_hid_xfer` is used to read `recv_len + sizeof(__le16)` bytes of data\ninto `ihid-\u003erawbuf`.\n\nThe former can come from the userspace in the hidraw driver and is only\nbounded by HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE(16384) by default (unless we also set\n`max_buffer_size` field of `struct hid_ll_driver` which we do not).\n\nThe latter has size determined at runtime by the maximum size of\ndifferent report types you could receive on any particular device and\ncan be a much smaller value.\n\nFix this by truncating `recv_len` to `ihid-\u003ebufsize - sizeof(__le16)`.\n\nThe impact is low since access to hidraw devices requires root."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"85df713377ddc0482071c3e6b64c37bd1e48f1f1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f9c9ad89d845f88a1509e9d672f65d234425fde9"},{"version":"85df713377ddc0482071c3e6b64c37bd1e48f1f1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cff3f619fd1cb40cdd89971df9001f075613d219"},{"version":"85df713377ddc0482071c3e6b64c37bd1e48f1f1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"786ec171788bdf9dda38789163f1b1fbb47f2d1e"},{"version":"85df713377ddc0482071c3e6b64c37bd1e48f1f1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2124279f1f8c32c1646ce98e75a1a39b23b7db76"},{"version":"85df713377ddc0482071c3e6b64c37bd1e48f1f1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2497ff38c530b1af0df5130ca9f5ab22c5e92f29"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"},{"version":"6.1.163","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.124","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.70","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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