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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 22, 2026· Updated Apr 28, 2026

CVE-2026-31520

CVE-2026-31520

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

HID: apple: avoid memory leak in apple_report_fixup()

The apple_report_fixup() function was returning a newly kmemdup()-allocated buffer, but never freeing it.

The caller of report_fixup() does not take ownership of the returned pointer, but it *is* permitted to return a sub-portion of the input rdesc, whose lifetime is managed by the caller.

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Affected products

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  • Linux/Kernel3 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=5.17,<6.1.168
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*

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