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CVE-2026-74683 (GCVE-0-2026-74683)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-22 15:32 – Updated: 2026-08-25 05:23
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Title
Input: evdev - sanitize event type index when fetching event masks
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Input: evdev - sanitize event type index when fetching event masks The user-supplied event type index passed to EVIOCGMASK / EVIOCSMASK ioctls is used to index the static counts array in evdev_get_mask_cnt() and client evmasks array in evdev_get_mask(). While the event type is architecturally bounded by EV_CNT, speculative execution may mispredict bounds checks and perform out-of-bounds loads. Sanitize the event type index in evdev_get_mask_cnt() branchlessly using array_index_mask_nospec(). This clamps the index to 0 for safe array access and forces the returned count to 0 speculatively when the index is out of bounds. We do not need additional array_index_nospec() calls in evdev_get_mask() because evdev_get_mask_cnt() speculatively forces the count (and resulting xfer_size) to 0 for out-of-bounds types, preventing any speculative memory access to client evmasks array.
Severity
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 06a16293f71927f756dcf37558a79c0b05a91641 , < c79b08d8fa230871a3634e34a66e591ac2d084ef (git)
Affected: 06a16293f71927f756dcf37558a79c0b05a91641 , < f27fa9b39f925d26e034a1f382cb45523138f4ae (git)
Affected: 06a16293f71927f756dcf37558a79c0b05a91641 , < f3fc329acad9a71b3c077237cbac20670d2358c8 (git)
Affected: 06a16293f71927f756dcf37558a79c0b05a91641 , < 5db341189bb7ff041d570dbe36ecca7e32913927 (git)
Affected: 06a16293f71927f756dcf37558a79c0b05a91641 , < 433913b4a92214d76e9f0c03ad9128fec943d5f8 (git)
Affected: 06a16293f71927f756dcf37558a79c0b05a91641 , < 4034ef247a9dde3f56660b01f0c3280dac6b1274 (git)
Affected: 06a16293f71927f756dcf37558a79c0b05a91641 , < 810e1883d4815f29c30d900ad7333d03cc2515d1 (git)
Affected: 06a16293f71927f756dcf37558a79c0b05a91641 , < 3abd29c61d2ef37c4102cf755b18be53bb9dbea6 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.4 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.265 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.216 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.183 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.152 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.104 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.45 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.9 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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