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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-64363" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:50:18.824Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:54:10.084Z" 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-2026-64363" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64363.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64363" title: "HID: appleir: fix UAF on pending key_up_timer in remove()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nHID: appleir: fix UAF on pending key_up_timer in remove()\n\nappleir_remove() runs hid_hw_stop() before timer_delete_sync().\nhid_hw_stop() synchronously unregisters the HID input device via\nhid_disconnect() -\u003e hidinput_disconnect() -\u003e input_unregister_device(),\nwhich drops the last reference and frees the underlying input_dev when\nno userspace handle holds it open.\n\nkey_up_tick() reads appleir-\u003einput_dev and calls input_report_key() /\ninput_sync() on it. The timer is armed from appleir_raw_event() with\na HZ/8 (~125 ms) timeout on every keydown and key-repeat report. If a\nkey was pressed shortly before the device is disconnected, the timer\ncan fire after hid_hw_stop() has freed input_dev but before the\nteardown drains it.\n\nA simple reorder is not sufficient. Putting the timer drain first\nstill leaves a window where a USB URB completion (raw_event) running\nduring hid_hw_stop() can call mod_timer() and re-arm the timer, which\nthen fires after hidinput_disconnect() has freed input_dev. The same\nURB-completion window also lets raw_event() reach key_up(), key_down()\nand battery_flat() directly, all of which dereference\nappleir-\u003einput_dev.\n\nIntroduce a 'removing' flag on struct appleir, gated by the existing\nspinlock. appleir_remove() sets the flag under the lock and then\nshuts down the timer with timer_shutdown_sync(), which both drains any\nin-flight callback and permanently disables further mod_timer() calls.\nappleir_raw_event() and key_up_tick() bail out early if the flag is\nset, so no path can arm or run the timer, or dereference\nappleir-\u003einput_dev, after remove() has started tearing down.\n\nThe keyrepeat and flatbattery branches of appleir_raw_event()\npreviously called into the input layer without holding the spinlock;\ntake it now so the flag check is well-defined. This incidentally\ncloses a pre-existing read-side race on appleir-\u003ecurrent_key in the\nkeyrepeat branch.\n\nThis bug is structurally a sibling of commit 4db2af929279 (\"HID:\nappletb-kbd: fix UAF in inactivity-timer cleanup path\") and has been\npresent since the driver was introduced." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9a4a5574ce427c364d81746fc7fb82d86b5f1a7e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"89ef67359672bf4cd6921524e39f61648fe38c0f"},{"version":"9a4a5574ce427c364d81746fc7fb82d86b5f1a7e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3d30a0bb0e79621ae921b487835c56198adfafa3"},{"version":"9a4a5574ce427c364d81746fc7fb82d86b5f1a7e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"37a52c61d4f78153c38ae1f7491dfcc8ac828dcf"},{"version":"9a4a5574ce427c364d81746fc7fb82d86b5f1a7e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"05e3decc55d1deca9410e0eb36466651fcbe57a5"},{"version":"9a4a5574ce427c364d81746fc7fb82d86b5f1a7e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3755f6e25776b8b12ddf062f9b573f05090e4034"},{"version":"9a4a5574ce427c364d81746fc7fb82d86b5f1a7e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b363d964ca829c1761c9f04188dfa28f90b0f2d4"},{"version":"9a4a5574ce427c364d81746fc7fb82d86b5f1a7e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6b0838e86da88b1d3bff86f19761ff25af73eaca"},{"version":"9a4a5574ce427c364d81746fc7fb82d86b5f1a7e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"75fe87e19d8aff81eb2c64d15d244ab8da4de945"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.10"},{"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":"6.12.97","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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