# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98501"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:16:46.205Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:20:40.228Z"
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-2026-98501"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98501.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98501"
title: "HID: alps: fix use-after-free on input2 registration failure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nHID: alps: fix use-after-free on input2 registration failure\n\nalps_input_configured() stores data-\u003einput2 before calling\ninput_register_device().  If registration fails, input_free_device()\nfrees the input device but data-\u003einput2 still points to the freed memory.\nalps_input_configured() calls hid_hw_open() before allocating input2, so\nURBs are already active and raw_event can fire during the failure window.\nA U1_SP_ABSOLUTE_REPORT_ID report arriving then causes u1_raw_event()\nto dereference the freed data-\u003einput2 -\u003e use-after-free.\n\nFix by only storing input2 into drvdata after successful registration\nand adding a NULL guard in the raw_event path."
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