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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 22, 2026· Updated Jun 17, 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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