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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-80918" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-09T16:13:15.799Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:45:02.656Z" 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-2026-80918" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80918.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80918" title: "HID: core: fix number/pointer type confusion on long items" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nHID: core: fix number/pointer type confusion on long items\n\nWhen fetch_item() is called by hid_scan_report() on an item with\nHID_ITEM_TAG_LONG, it stores a pointer to the item data in\nitem-\u003edata.longdata instead of storing a value directly in\nitem-\u003edata.{u8/u16/u32}.\n\nWhen item_udata() or item_sdata() encounters such an item, it incorrectly\nassumes that the item is in short format, and therefore returns the lower\npart of a kernel pointer reinterpreted as a number.\n\nWhen a HID device is connected whose descriptor contains a\nHID_GLOBAL_ITEM_TAG_REPORT_SIZE encoded in long format with size=4, this\ncauses the lower half of a kernel pointer to be printed into dmesg as a\nnumber, like this:\n\n hid (null): invalid report_size 107953555\n\nTo fix it, let item_udata() and item_sdata() verify that the item is in\nshort format.\n\nNote that this bug only affects hid_scan_report(), while the main parsing\npass hid_parse_collections() will always bail out when encountering a long\nitem.\n\nSidenote: There are currently no users of data.longdata; maybe we should\njust remove any parsing of long-format descriptors as a follow-up." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3dc8fc083dbfeede7b63a0c07581192e97711365","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bed7fe3a936b6bdd84671385951397ca673cf6e7"},{"version":"3dc8fc083dbfeede7b63a0c07581192e97711365","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aec2c2ec87d4ec1f098979f68cd81b29f031c8cb"},{"version":"3dc8fc083dbfeede7b63a0c07581192e97711365","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"634f498ea5d5e8e01f8d9414d4f45eeaf9ee1996"},{"version":"3dc8fc083dbfeede7b63a0c07581192e97711365","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"abec577de5fc16cd5caae42f97cdcd0983c06d66"},{"version":"3dc8fc083dbfeede7b63a0c07581192e97711365","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dd8035dec26e98204d6e4a6e0cee5c4d329b3d7e"},{"version":"3dc8fc083dbfeede7b63a0c07581192e97711365","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1fa1591efd417e39e5e164bebea8ca7a3837c469"},{"version":"3dc8fc083dbfeede7b63a0c07581192e97711365","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e60159f5ea60254a5c3de4ea4f2f939f0171031b"},{"version":"3dc8fc083dbfeede7b63a0c07581192e97711365","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e542edada3f79387c0ac2a528cebf01f4ef47df8"},{"version":"3dc8fc083dbfeede7b63a0c07581192e97711365","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"28abce951343fcec26e397610868efa4e1395c3f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.12"},{"version":"5.10.267","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.218","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"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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