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CVE-2026-64603

Low risk· EPSS 5%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.16%

5th percentile - higher than 5% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the intel-hid driver has a race condition in ACPI notify handling. When two tablet-mode events occur concurrently on different CPU cores, the input device may be registered twice, leading to a duplicate sysfs entry and a subsequent NULL pointer dereference.

Risk Assessment

A local attacker could cause a kernel panic or potentially escalate privileges if the race is exploited to corrupt memory.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel update containing the fix that protects the ACPI notify handler with a mutex. Ensure systems with the affected driver are patched.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: intel-hid: Protect ACPI notify handler against recursion Since commit e2ffcda16290 ("ACPI: OSL: Allow Notify () handlers to run on all CPUs") ACPI notify handlers like the intel-hid notify_handler() may run on multiple CPU cores racing with themselves. On convertibles and detachables (matched by DMI chassis-type 31 and 32 in dmi_auto_add_switch[]) the SW_TABLET_MODE input device is registered lazily from notify_handler() on the first tablet-mode event, via intel_hid_switches_setup(). When two such events race on different CPUs both can pass the !priv->switches check and register the priv->switches input device twice, resulting in a duplicate sysfs entry and a subsequent NULL pointer dereference. This is the same class of bug fixed by commit e075c3b13a0a ("platform/x86: intel-vbtn: Protect ACPI notify handler against recursion") for the sibling intel-vbtn driver. Protect intel-hid notify_handler() from racing with itself with a mutex to fix this.

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