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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-80772" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-04T15:12:44.445Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:43:28.729Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z" 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-2026-80772" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80772.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80772" title: "HID: nintendo: fix out-of-bounds read in joycon_ctlr_read_handler()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nHID: nintendo: fix out-of-bounds read in joycon_ctlr_read_handler()\n\njoycon_ctlr_read_handler() casts an incoming HID input report to\nstruct joycon_input_report and parses it, guarding the cast only with a\n12-byte length check:\n\n\tif (size \u003e= 12) /* make sure it contains the input report */\n\t\tjoycon_parse_report(ctlr, (struct joycon_input_report *)data);\n\nstruct joycon_input_report is 49 bytes: a 13-byte header followed by a\nunion whose IMU arm is 36 bytes. For an IMU report joycon_parse_report()\n-\u003e joycon_parse_imu_report() walks that union (struct offsets 13..48),\nso a report of exactly 12 bytes with data[0] == JC_INPUT_IMU_DATA passes\nthe guard yet is read up to 37 bytes past its declared length. The\nover-read bytes are decoded into accelerometer/gyroscope values and\nforwarded to userspace through the \"(IMU)\" input device, leaking\ndriver-internal memory. data[0] and size are fully controlled by a\nmalicious or spoofed Joy-Con/Pro Controller.\n\nReceive buffers are sized to the maximum report length, so this is an\nover-read within the allocation rather than a slab OOB, but the decoded\nbytes still reach userspace.\n\nThe sibling subcmd path in joycon_ctlr_handle_event() already bounds the\nsame cast correctly:\n\n\tif (size \u003c sizeof(struct joycon_input_report) ||\n\t data[0] != JC_INPUT_SUBCMD_REPLY)\n\t\tbreak;\n\nUse the same sizeof(struct joycon_input_report) bound here." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2af16c1f846bd60240745bbd3afa13d5f040c61a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"33ea29f8b6141f2d265de807e110a6435b355cb0"},{"version":"2af16c1f846bd60240745bbd3afa13d5f040c61a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bd397c4123a4bc084913d8c7fdb40ef94e9f8172"},{"version":"2af16c1f846bd60240745bbd3afa13d5f040c61a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"addca61f9a23c0d20a387c2040e70479f54518e1"},{"version":"2af16c1f846bd60240745bbd3afa13d5f040c61a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"51cfd1adbe7a46bb08af162abb3ab3b6820e2d15"},{"version":"2af16c1f846bd60240745bbd3afa13d5f040c61a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d4cabd4089adb59cf7974915737c52cc47a9bb1b"},{"version":"2af16c1f846bd60240745bbd3afa13d5f040c61a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"34725ed4719da424113db8449fb5485aaf71a913"},{"version":"2af16c1f846bd60240745bbd3afa13d5f040c61a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"27b376b945c0aac46fcdfcc950b14a85b874b557"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"6.1.185","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.154","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.106","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.47","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","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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