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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98859" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:51:20.456Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:57:37.465Z" 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-2026-98859" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98859.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98859" title: "HID: multitouch: stop the release timer from being rearmed on remove" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nHID: multitouch: stop the release timer from being rearmed on remove\n\nmt_remove() quiesces the sticky-finger timer before stopping the\nhardware:\n\n timer_delete_sync(&td-\u003erelease_timer);\n\n sysfs_remove_group(&hdev-\u003edev.kobj, &mt_attribute_group);\n hid_hw_stop(hdev);\n\ntimer_delete_sync() waits for a running callback and dequeues the timer,\nbut it does not stop the timer from being armed again. The transport is\nstill delivering reports at that point, and the report path rearms it:\n\n if (app-\u003equirks & MT_QUIRK_STICKY_FINGERS) {\n if (td-\u003emt_io_flags & MT_IO_SLOTS_MASK)\n mod_timer(&td-\u003erelease_timer,\n jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(100));\n\nA report that arrives after timer_delete_sync() has returned therefore\nleaves the timer queued. td is allocated with devm_kzalloc() against\nhdev-\u003edev, so it is freed when the driver is unbound, after mt_remove()\nreturns. When the timer fires afterwards, mt_expired_timeout()\ndereferences the freed td:\n\n struct mt_device *td = timer_container_of(td, t, release_timer);\n struct hid_device *hdev = td-\u003ehdev;\n\n if (test_and_set_bit_lock(MT_IO_FLAGS_RUNNING, &td-\u003emt_io_flags))\n\nSimply moving the teardown after hid_hw_stop() does not fix this on its\nown, because mt_expired_timeout() calls mt_release_contacts(), which\nwalks hdev-\u003einputs; the timer still has to be quiesced before\nhid_hw_stop() tears the input devices down.\n\nUse timer_shutdown_sync() instead, which additionally makes any later\nmod_timer() a no-op, so neither ordering constraint has to be traded off\nagainst the other. This is the final-teardown pattern the function was\nintroduced for, and hid-wiimote already uses it for the same reason." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4f4001bc76fd1a138a501fbd3d68cce72cbf96ce","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3776f34fbce990af45978f1628d2e1adc0d67d0f"},{"version":"4f4001bc76fd1a138a501fbd3d68cce72cbf96ce","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1f1bd9a3117f082eb891c0986c4f0e04cd974c9a"},{"version":"4f4001bc76fd1a138a501fbd3d68cce72cbf96ce","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0c19a6c1d25fd5ed66d1f80dc6f6e56cc1f0a787"},{"version":"4f4001bc76fd1a138a501fbd3d68cce72cbf96ce","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a0125ca86e405b8a704e96157a6c10ca51087652"},{"version":"4f4001bc76fd1a138a501fbd3d68cce72cbf96ce","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5acb2dace582f061aab5e14c399ac9480315f44b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.13"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.56","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.10","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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