Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 22, 2026· Updated Apr 28, 2026
CVE-2026-31524
CVE-2026-31524
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
HID: asus: avoid memory leak in asus_report_fixup()
The asus_report_fixup() function was returning a newly allocated kmemdup()-allocated buffer, but never freeing it. Switch to devm_kzalloc() to ensure the memory is managed and freed automatically when the device is removed.
The caller of report_fixup() does not take ownership of the returned pointer, but it is permitted to return a pointer whose lifetime is at least that of the input buffer.
Also fix a harmless out-of-bounds read by copying only the original descriptor size.
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References
8- git.kernel.org/stable/c/2bad24c17742fc88973d6aea526ce1353f5334a3nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e4fe6b15c2f390c023b20d728b1a3fe7ea4f973nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/726765b43deb2b4723869d673cc5fc6f7a3b2059nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a6d6e4d8af044f94fa97e97af5ff2771e1fbebdnvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/84724ac4821a160d47b84289adf139023027bdbbnvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a41cc7c1668e44ff2c2d36f9a6353253ffc43e3cnvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ede95cfcab8064d9a08813fbd7ed42cea8843dcfnvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f20f17cffbe34fb330267e0f8084f5565f807444nvdPatch
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