# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98201"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:44:38.952Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:15:32.269Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-98201"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98201.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98201"
title: "Input: zero ff_effect before compat copy in input_ff_effect_from_user"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nInput: zero ff_effect before compat copy in input_ff_effect_from_user\n\nIn the compat path input_ff_effect_from_user() aliases the caller's\nnative struct ff_effect with the smaller struct ff_effect_compat and\ncopies only the compat sized prefix:\n\n\tcompat_effect = (struct ff_effect_compat *)effect;\n\n\tif (copy_from_user(compat_effect, buffer,\n\t\t\t   sizeof(struct ff_effect_compat)))\n\nThe tail of the native structure is never written. Callers pass an\nuninitialized on-stack object, for example evdev_do_ioctl() for\nEVIOCSFF, so those bytes keep their previous stack contents.\ninput_ff_upload() then stores the full native structure in\nff-\u003eeffects[id], from where a uinput based force feedback daemon can\nread it back via UI_BEGIN_FF_UPLOAD, disclosing kernel stack memory to\nuserspace.\n\nZero the effect before the compat copy."
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