Bug 2461477 (CVE-2026-31624)

Summary: CVE-2026-31624 kernel: HID: core: clamp report_size in s32ton() to avoid undefined shift
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Human Interface Device (HID) core. A malicious or malformed HID device could provide a specially crafted report descriptor with an overly large `report_size` value. This could lead to an undefined shift operation within the `s32ton()` function when processing output reports. This vulnerability may result in system instability or a denial of service (DoS).
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-04-24 15:03:46 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

HID: core: clamp report_size in s32ton() to avoid undefined shift

s32ton() shifts by n-1 where n is the field's report_size, a value that
comes directly from a HID device.  The HID parser bounds report_size
only to <= 256, so a broken HID device can supply a report descriptor
with a wide field that triggers shift exponents up to 256 on a 32-bit
type when an output report is built via hid_output_field() or
hid_set_field().

Commit ec61b41918587 ("HID: core: fix shift-out-of-bounds in
hid_report_raw_event") added the same n > 32 clamp to the function
snto32(), but s32ton() was never given the same fix as I guess syzbot
hadn't figured out how to fuzz a device the same way.

Fix this up by just clamping the max value of n, just like snto32()
does.