CVE-2026-64271

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-64271

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

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. (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.

References