CVE-2026-64271

Input: touchwin - reset the packet index on every complete packet

HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.17 % · percentile 6 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Input: touchwin - reset the packet index on every complete packet tw_interrupt() accumulates each non-zero serial byte into a fixed three-byte buffer with a running index that is only reset once a full packet has been received *and* the device's two Y bytes agree: tw->data[tw->idx++] = data; if (tw->idx == TW_LENGTH && tw->data[1] == tw->data[2]) { ... tw->idx = 0; } The reset is gated on tw->data[1] == tw->data[2], a value the device controls. A malicious, malfunctioning or counterfeit Touchwindow peripheral can stream non-zero bytes whose 2nd and 3rd bytes differ: the index reaches TW_LENGTH without the equality holding, is never reset, and keeps growing, so tw->data[tw->idx++] walks off the end of the three-byte array and the rest of the heap-allocated struct tw, one attacker-chosen byte at a time -- an unbounded, device-driven heap out-of-bounds write. Reset the index on every completed packet and report an event only when the two Y bytes match, like the other serio touchscreen drivers do.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-129 — Improper Validation of Array Index

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 11ea3173d5f2de71d037ef58ac43395795fed2bc < ed9b66905407eb3d02df1aaeed82eb7a7f0eb508 ; affected 11ea3173d5f2de71d037ef58ac43395795fed2bc < 044167cba2384bcd783547ad5e30ecd292b30919 ; affected 11ea3173d5f2de71d037ef58ac43395795fed2bc < 6c9f29f128dd4057404838259af4c645318487e1 ; affected 11ea3173d5f2de71d037ef58ac43395795fed2bc < 431ad239f2924dff337c3fccb9246597c1b63185 ; affected 11ea3173d5f2de71d037ef58ac43395795fed2bc < 70e4248793762df9832fd4fc2fc6ac7924572c36 ; affected 11ea3173d5f2de71d037ef58ac43395795fed2bc < 3e6f007b43e2fc6546e21fa74ee62c38984a6672
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.19 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.19 ; unaffected 5.10.261 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.212 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.178 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.145 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD