CVE-2026-64271

Input: touchwin - reset the packet index on every complete packet

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jul 25, 2026
Updated
Aug 17, 2026
Reserved
Jul 19, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Input: touchwin - reset the packet index on every complete packet

tw_interrupt() accumulates each non-zero serial byte into a fixed three-byte buffer with a running index that is only reset once a full packet has been received *and* the device's two Y bytes agree:

tw->data[tw->idx++] = data; if (tw->idx == TW_LENGTH && tw->data[1] == tw->data[2]) { ... tw->idx = 0; }

The reset is gated on tw->data[1] == tw->data[2], a value the device controls. A malicious, malfunctioning or counterfeit Touchwindow peripheral can stream non-zero bytes whose 2nd and 3rd bytes differ: the index reaches TW_LENGTH without the equality holding, is never reset, and keeps growing, so tw->data[tw->idx++] walks off the end of the three-byte array and the rest of the heap-allocated struct tw, one attacker-chosen byte at a time -- an unbounded, device-driven heap out-of-bounds write.

Reset the index on every completed packet and report an event only when the two Y bytes match, like the other serio touchscreen drivers do.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 11ea3173d5f2de71d037ef58ac43395795fed2bc to before ed9b66905407eb3d02df1aaeed82eb7a7f0eb508Affected
  • 11ea3173d5f2de71d037ef58ac43395795fed2bc to before 044167cba2384bcd783547ad5e30ecd292b30919Affected
  • 11ea3173d5f2de71d037ef58ac43395795fed2bc to before 6c9f29f128dd4057404838259af4c645318487e1Affected
  • 11ea3173d5f2de71d037ef58ac43395795fed2bc to before 431ad239f2924dff337c3fccb9246597c1b63185Affected
  • 11ea3173d5f2de71d037ef58ac43395795fed2bc to before 70e4248793762df9832fd4fc2fc6ac7924572c36Affected
  • 11ea3173d5f2de71d037ef58ac43395795fed2bc to before 3e6f007b43e2fc6546e21fa74ee62c38984a6672Affected
  • 11ea3173d5f2de71d037ef58ac43395795fed2bc to before a8d87184576c889759e3aab899799a482f1e1a5bAffected
  • 11ea3173d5f2de71d037ef58ac43395795fed2bc to before 478cdd736f2ce3114f90e775d7358136d3977b94Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.19Affected
  • before 2.6.19Not affected
  • 5.10.261 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.212 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.178 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.145 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.96 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.39 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.4 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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