Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 22, 2026· Updated Apr 28, 2026
CVE-2026-31522
CVE-2026-31522
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
HID: magicmouse: avoid memory leak in magicmouse_report_fixup()
The magicmouse_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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References
7- git.kernel.org/stable/c/136f605e246b4bfe7ac2259471d1ff814aed0084nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/579c4c9857acdc8380fa99803f355f878bd766cbnvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/79e5dcc95d9abed6f8203cfd529f4ec71f0e505dnvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7edfe4346b052b708645d0acc0f186425766b785nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/91e8c6e601bdc1ccdf886479b6513c01c7e51c2cnvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d84c21aabaab517b9aaf9bc1d785922cb9db2f31nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa95b0146358b49f9858139b67314591fd5871b0nvdPatch
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