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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-89624" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:45:21.438Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:48:01.115Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z" 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-2026-89624" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89624.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89624" title: "HID: universal-pidff: stop the device when force-feedback init fails" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nHID: universal-pidff: stop the device when force-feedback init fails\n\nuniversal_pidff_probe() starts the device with hid_hw_start() and then, if\nforce-feedback initialisation fails, returns the error through a label that\nonly does \"return error\". The device is left started.\n\nThe HID core does not unwind on the driver's behalf. __hid_device_probe()\nreleases the devres group, closes the report and clears hdev-\u003edriver:\n\n\tif (ret) {\n\t\tdevres_release_group(&hdev-\u003edev, hdev-\u003edevres_group_id);\n\t\thid_close_report(hdev);\n\t\thdev-\u003edriver = NULL;\n\t}\n\nThe hidraw character device that hid_hw_start() registered through\nhid_connect() is allocated with kzalloc() and added with cdev_device_add(),\nso it is not devres-managed and survives that. With hdev-\u003edriver NULL,\nhid_device_remove() skips hid_hw_stop() as well, because it only unwinds\nwhile a driver is still attached. The registration therefore outlives the\ndevice on both paths.\n\nOpening the surviving /dev/hidrawX writes into freed memory. KASAN reports\na use-after-free write from hidraw_open() -\u003e hid_hw_open() -\u003e the\ntransport's open callback, which takes a spinlock inside the freed object.\nA descriptor that carries a PID usage page and no input reports is enough:\nhidraw claims the device so hid_hw_start() succeeds, while hid-\u003einputs\nstays empty so force-feedback init fails. The other failure returns in\nhid_pidff_init_with_quirks() - no output reports, an allocation failure,\npidff_init_fields(), pidff_check_autocenter(), an unusable effect count,\ninput_ff_create() - all reach the same label.\n\nStop the device on that path. hid-dr.c and hid-emsff.c, which start the\ndevice with the same HID_CONNECT_DEFAULT & ~HID_CONNECT_FF mask, already do\nthis. The two earlier gotos must keep returning without hid_hw_stop(),\nsince neither has a started device, so give the path that fails after the\nstart its own label.\n\nDiscovered by XBOW, triaged by Baul Lee \u003cbaul.lee@xbow.com\u003e" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c1fde337b317f0a226de92803288741c30799eb0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"66358f5789c9a7e28809985a83c01e6ad933849e"},{"version":"f45f26a6b3e7260c129c7c6bb0ace63aeb7b3868","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"519fa26695b02870022fcdc651efb3d379abe54e"},{"version":"f06bf8d94fffbb544b1cb5402c92e0a075f0d420","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"01d9874e84d3ab78fd212ad822412eb3af84497f"},{"version":"f06bf8d94fffbb544b1cb5402c92e0a075f0d420","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c457bb516b61edeab940235a011928e26925381e"},{"version":"f06bf8d94fffbb544b1cb5402c92e0a075f0d420","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ce08c5555cabcd444d8b77fa69a7cb68bb05f611"},{"version":"af9f2471dfe5a48384f5b7f021a673fbc741465e","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"b797352954eee6dc084cfaed0659dea60adfb484","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.6.88","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.160"},{"version":"6.12.24","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.111"},{"version":"6.13.12","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"},{"version":"6.14.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.4","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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