UNKNOWN NVD
CVE-2026-74683
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Input: evdev - sanitize event type index when fetching event masks The user-supplied event
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.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3abd29c61d2ef37c4102cf755b18be53bb9dbea6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4034ef247a9dde3f56660b01f0c3280dac6b1274
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/433913b4a92214d76e9f0c03ad9128fec943d5f8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5db341189bb7ff041d570dbe36ecca7e32913927
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/810e1883d4815f29c30d900ad7333d03cc2515d1
This unknown severity vulnerability was published on 2026-08-22 via NVD.
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