In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: wacom: fix slab-out-of-bounds write in wacom_wac_queue_insert wacom_wac_queue_insert() calls kfifo_skip() in a loop when the kfifo doesn't have enough space for the incoming report. If the kfifo is empty, kfifo_skip() reads stale data left in the kmalloc'd buffer via __kfifo_peek_n() and interprets it as a record length, advancing fifo->out by that garbage value. This corrupts the internal kfifo state, causing kfifo_unused() to return a value much larger than the actual buffer size, which bypasses __kfifo_in_r()'s guard: if (len + recsize > kfifo_unused(fifo)) return 0; kfifo_copy_in() then performs an out-of-bounds memcpy, writing up to 3842 bytes past the 256-byte buffer. Add a !kfifo_is_empty() condition to the while loop so kfifo_skip() is never called on an empty fifo, and check the return value of kfifo_in() to reject reports that are too large for the fifo.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57bdd10ad50d68341f500a7b330f0d8949e510ec Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b3014ec0e9a390ca563030b2d7689921f0daef5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca899a926c11a59211b764b0155d9a1cdcc32b81 Patch
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 2
- StatusAnalyzed → ModifiedNVD modified 2026-10-19 21:17
- First seenCVSS 8.8 · linuxNVD modified 2026-10-16 16:19
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*