CVE-2026-80772 (GCVE-0-2026-80772)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-04 15:12 – Updated: 2026-10-19 08:43
VLAI
Title
HID: nintendo: fix out-of-bounds read in joycon_ctlr_read_handler()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: nintendo: fix out-of-bounds read in joycon_ctlr_read_handler() joycon_ctlr_read_handler() casts an incoming HID input report to struct joycon_input_report and parses it, guarding the cast only with a 12-byte length check: if (size >= 12) /* make sure it contains the input report */ joycon_parse_report(ctlr, (struct joycon_input_report *)data); struct joycon_input_report is 49 bytes: a 13-byte header followed by a union whose IMU arm is 36 bytes. For an IMU report joycon_parse_report() -> joycon_parse_imu_report() walks that union (struct offsets 13..48), so a report of exactly 12 bytes with data[0] == JC_INPUT_IMU_DATA passes the guard yet is read up to 37 bytes past its declared length. The over-read bytes are decoded into accelerometer/gyroscope values and forwarded to userspace through the "(IMU)" input device, leaking driver-internal memory. data[0] and size are fully controlled by a malicious or spoofed Joy-Con/Pro Controller. Receive buffers are sized to the maximum report length, so this is an over-read within the allocation rather than a slab OOB, but the decoded bytes still reach userspace. The sibling subcmd path in joycon_ctlr_handle_event() already bounds the same cast correctly: if (size < sizeof(struct joycon_input_report) || data[0] != JC_INPUT_SUBCMD_REPLY) break; Use the same sizeof(struct joycon_input_report) bound here.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7018 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 2af16c1f846bd60240745bbd3afa13d5f040c61a , < 33ea29f8b6141f2d265de807e110a6435b355cb0 (git)
Affected: 2af16c1f846bd60240745bbd3afa13d5f040c61a , < bd397c4123a4bc084913d8c7fdb40ef94e9f8172 (git)
Affected: 2af16c1f846bd60240745bbd3afa13d5f040c61a , < addca61f9a23c0d20a387c2040e70479f54518e1 (git)
Affected: 2af16c1f846bd60240745bbd3afa13d5f040c61a , < 51cfd1adbe7a46bb08af162abb3ab3b6820e2d15 (git)
Affected: 2af16c1f846bd60240745bbd3afa13d5f040c61a , < d4cabd4089adb59cf7974915737c52cc47a9bb1b (git)
Affected: 2af16c1f846bd60240745bbd3afa13d5f040c61a , < 34725ed4719da424113db8449fb5485aaf71a913 (git)
Affected: 2af16c1f846bd60240745bbd3afa13d5f040c61a , < 27b376b945c0aac46fcdfcc950b14a85b874b557 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.185 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.154 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.106 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.47 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.11 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.1 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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    Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.