CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-74683

Low risk· EPSS 9%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.19%

9th percentile - higher than 9% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the Input: evdev driver has a vulnerability where the user-supplied event type index in EVIOCGMASK / EVIOCSMASK ioctls is used to index arrays in evdev_get_mask_cnt() and evdev_get_mask(). Speculative execution may mispredict bounds checks and perform out-of-bounds loads.

Risk Assessment

The risk includes potential information leak through speculative out-of-bounds reads, which could compromise data confidentiality in the kernel.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that uses array_index_mask_nospec() to sanitize the index in evdev_get_mask_cnt() to prevent speculative out-of-bounds reads.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Input: evdev - sanitize event type index when fetching event masks The user-supplied event type index passed to EVIOCGMASK / EVIOCSMASK ioctls is used to index the static counts array in evdev_get_mask_cnt() and client evmasks array in evdev_get_mask(). While the event type is architecturally bounded by EV_CNT, speculative execution may mispredict bounds checks and perform out-of-bounds loads. Sanitize the event type index in evdev_get_mask_cnt() branchlessly using array_index_mask_nospec(). This clamps the index to 0 for safe array access and forces the returned count to 0 speculatively when the index is out of bounds. We do not need additional array_index_nospec() calls in evdev_get_mask() because evdev_get_mask_cnt() speculatively forces the count (and resulting xfer_size) to 0 for out-of-bounds types, preventing any speculative memory access to client evmasks array.

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