Input: evdev - fix information leak in evdev_pass_values() (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-74673
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At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.18 % · percentile 7 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Input: evdev - fix information leak in evdev_pass_values() In evdev_pass_values(), the input_event structure is allocated on the kernel stack and populated field-by-field. However, it is never fully initialized. On architectures where struct input_event contains explicit or implicit padding (such as the 32-bit __pad field on SPARC64), these padding bytes are left uninitialized. When this event structure is subsequently passed to the client buffer and later copied to userspace, the uninitialized padding bytes leak kernel stack memory, potentially exposing sensitive information. Similar issues exist in __evdev_queue_syn_dropped and __pass_event. Fix this by explicitly zeroing the entire event structure with memset() before populating its fields. This ensures all padding bytes are cleared before the data crosses the security boundary.

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European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 6addb1d6de1968b84852f54561cc9a999909b5a9 < d2e3839419ac4047835762c4d7712bda1101b57e ; affected 6addb1d6de1968b84852f54561cc9a999909b5a9 < c6d5fa46c1ee25d068fc730fd377f0f54188d290 ; affected 6addb1d6de1968b84852f54561cc9a999909b5a9 < e748811d9b80a3e101110ff4b3c612e5fca54d98 ; affected 6addb1d6de1968b84852f54561cc9a999909b5a9 < 06a286b320236508d02ab2ccc9496352748652a8 ; affected 6addb1d6de1968b84852f54561cc9a999909b5a9 < 7d17e9454a9af3ec7aebb88b41a9deedd5b19a6b ; affected 6addb1d6de1968b84852f54561cc9a999909b5a9 < bd3c4108a56de34380edab670065e86283cb3029
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.24 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.24 ; unaffected 5.10.265 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.216 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.183 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.152 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
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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