HID: magicmouse: prevent unbounded recursion in magicmouse_raw_event()
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 6 without a fix
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: magicmouse: prevent unbounded recursion in magicmouse_raw_event() magicmouse_raw_event() handles DOUBLE_REPORT_ID (0xf7) packets, which pack two touch reports into one, by splitting the packet and calling itself on each half. The only guard against runaway recursion is a "size < 1" check, which stops zero-sized calls but does not bound the recursion depth. A malicious HID device that matches this driver can send a report starting with DOUBLE_REPORT_ID and filled with the sequence [0xf7, 0x00]. Each level consumes two bytes and recurses on the remainder, so an incoming report of up to HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE (16 KiB) drives roughly 8000 nested calls. That easily exhausts the 16 KiB kernel stack, leading to a stack overflow: a panic with CONFIG_VMAP_STACK, or memory corruption without it. A double report only ever wraps two normal reports; it is never legitimately nested. Refuse to re-enter the DOUBLE_REPORT_ID case from a recursive call so the recursion depth is bounded to two, while all valid packets keep being parsed exactly as before.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.15.220, 6.1.187, 6.6.156, 6.12.108, 6.18.49, 7.1.11, 7.2.1, 7.3
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 | Affected | No fix yet |
Not affected: 1 product
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-80783
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-846j-3r8r-8xv8
- 2026-10-19 Fix available: Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-11-06 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-11-06 CVSS score added · Red Hat
References
Other 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26c45abed62536aabf4033fb6d64cf72e93374e9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a10a624996f16628234306b46f0cf36707d78bd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d16df755b4493b6d37803c628b2c621d096796a8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bec338b07beb883726b32192c8f01c601bc76fda
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70589b0c005db003f6d8ae4db3c4d54fed7b83e4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a33a596d3ad8dfe6c96a368097a028abeee16c17
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d095de37f78c5f32a4252ef0f99b84ba76550b86
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db8d634128d2ba88d79c0b601e983ebe14bb0519
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Sources
- CVE-2026-80783 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-80783 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-846j-3r8r-8xv8 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-80783 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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