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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-64273" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:49:19.416Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:52:27.750Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z" 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-2026-64273" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64273.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64273" title: "Input: iforce - bound the device-reported force-feedback effect index" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nInput: iforce - bound the device-reported force-feedback effect index\n\niforce_process_packet() handles a status report (packet id 0x02) by\ntaking a force-feedback effect index straight from the device wire and\nusing it to address the per-effect state array:\n\n\ti = data[1] & 0x7f;\n\tif (data[1] & 0x80) {\n\t\tif (!test_and_set_bit(FF_CORE_IS_PLAYED,\n\t\t\t\t iforce-\u003ecore_effects[i].flags))\n\t\t\t...\n\t} else if (test_and_clear_bit(FF_CORE_IS_PLAYED,\n\t\t\t\t iforce-\u003ecore_effects[i].flags)) {\n\t\t...\n\t}\n\nThe index is masked only with 0x7f, so it ranges 0..127, but\ncore_effects[] holds only IFORCE_EFFECTS_MAX (32) entries. For an index\nof 32..127 the test_and_set_bit()/test_and_clear_bit() is an\nout-of-bounds single-bit read-modify-write past the array. core_effects[]\nis the second-to-last member of struct iforce, so the write lands in the\ntrailing members and beyond the embedding kzalloc()'d iforce_serio /\niforce_usb object.\n\ndata[1] is unvalidated device payload on both transports (the USB\ninterrupt endpoint and serio), and the status path is not gated on force\nfeedback being present, so a malicious or counterfeit device can set or\nclear a bit at an attacker-chosen offset past the object.\n\nReject an out-of-range index instead of indexing with it. Bound against\nthe array dimension IFORCE_EFFECTS_MAX rather than dev-\u003eff-\u003emax_effects so\nthe check guarantees memory safety regardless of how many effects the\ndevice registered. A legitimate \"effect started/stopped\" status always\ncarries an index below IFORCE_EFFECTS_MAX, so well-formed devices are\nunaffected; the neighbouring mark_core_as_ready() loop is already bounded\nand is left untouched." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b1b79e89bc33e4c682d3df7ae2aadc62b5a0c310"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d10b0507fa0f5b46764b178e3271f9012f2df677"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6c0f2901c9d325d4a0574c4237fd507810d225ff"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c21295616a8a52b9a5f18cd4ca8c73030eda3d4f"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e5fa31f0550b55d80045669ae9080dd5b88abffa"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"70019779325f2bb5f5a4098e91e79c655f50fcef"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a40250f97c312e000e3616c9074022311a0efbc3"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0e9943d2e4c63496b6ca84bc66fd3c71d40558e2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"5.10.261","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.212","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.96","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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