Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
HID: multitouch: Check to ensure report responses match the request
It is possible for a malicious (or clumsy) device to respond to a specific report’s feature request using a completely different report ID. This can cause confusion in the HID core resulting in nasty side-effects such as OOB writes.
Add a check to ensure that the report ID in the response, matches the one that was requested. If it doesn’t, omit reporting the raw event and return early.
Details
- Affected product:
- Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux-meta @ 5.4.0
Fixes
KernelCare state
Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.
| Operating system | Status | Covered kernels |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux 2023 | Planned | — |
| Debian 11 | Released |
37 kernels
|
| Debian 11 cloud | Released |
17 kernels
|
| Debian 12 | Released |
35 kernels
|
| Debian 13 | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 22.04 | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 | Planned | — |