{"id":"CVE-2026-89624","aliases":[],"url":"https://o3.security/vulnerability/CVE-2026-89624","summary":"HID: universal-pidff: stop the device when force-feedback init fails","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nHID: universal-pidff: stop the device when force-feedback init fails\n\nuniversal_pidff_probe() starts the device with hid_hw_start() and then, if\nforce-feedback initialisation fails, returns the error through a label that\nonly does \"return error\".  The device is left started.\n\nThe HID core does not unwind on the driver's behalf.  __hid_device_probe()\nreleases the devres group, closes the report and clears hdev->driver:\n\n\tif (ret) {\n\t\tdevres_release_group(&hdev->dev, hdev->devres_group_id);\n\t\thid_close_report(hdev);\n\t\thdev->driver = NULL;\n\t}\n\nThe hidraw character device that hid_hw_start() registered through\nhid_connect() is allocated with kzalloc() and added with cdev_device_add(),\nso it is not devres-managed and survives that.  With hdev->driver NULL,\nhid_device_remove() skips hid_hw_stop() as well, because it only unwinds\nwhile a driver is still attached.  The registration therefore outlives the\ndevice on both paths.\n\nOpening the surviving /dev/hidrawX writes into freed memory.  KASAN reports\na use-after-free write from hidraw_open() -> hid_hw_open() -> the\ntransport's open callback, which takes a spinlock inside the freed object.\nA descriptor that carries a PID usage page and no input reports is enough:\nhidraw claims the device so hid_hw_start() succeeds, while hid->inputs\nstays empty so force-feedback init fails.  The other failure returns in\nhid_pidff_init_with_quirks() - no output reports, an allocation failure,\npidff_init_fields(), pidff_check_autocenter(), an unusable effect count,\ninput_ff_create() - all reach the same label.\n\nStop the device on that path.  hid-dr.c and hid-emsff.c, which start the\ndevice with the same HID_CONNECT_DEFAULT & ~HID_CONNECT_FF mask, already do\nthis.  The two earlier gotos must keep returning without hid_hw_stop(),\nsince neither has a started device, so give the path that fails after the\nstart its own label.\n\nDiscovered by XBOW, triaged by Baul Lee <baul.lee@xbow.com>","published":"2026-09-11T19:45:21.438Z","modified":"2026-09-14T03:46:19.500777423Z","cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"epss":null,"cisaKev":null,"exploitsKnown":null,"affectedPackages":[{"ecosystem":"Linux","name":"Kernel","fixedVersion":"6.18.50"}],"fix":null,"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01d9874e84d3ab78fd212ad822412eb3af84497f"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c457bb516b61edeab940235a011928e26925381e"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce08c5555cabcd444d8b77fa69a7cb68bb05f611"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/89xxx/CVE-2026-89624.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-89624"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"}],"provenance":{"sources":["OSV.dev","FIRST.org (EPSS)"],"lastVerified":"2026-09-14T03:46:19.500777423Z"}}