Bug 2420255 (CVE-2023-53797) - CVE-2023-53797 kernel: HID: wacom: Use ktime_t rather than int when dealing with timestamps
Summary: CVE-2023-53797 kernel: HID: wacom: Use ktime_t rather than int when dealing w...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53797
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-09 01:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-19 13:15 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-09 01:03:39 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

HID: wacom: Use ktime_t rather than int when dealing with timestamps

Code which interacts with timestamps needs to use the ktime_t type
returned by functions like ktime_get. The int type does not offer
enough space to store these values, and attempting to use it is a
recipe for problems. In this particular case, overflows would occur
when calculating/storing timestamps leading to incorrect values being
reported to userspace. In some cases these bad timestamps cause input
handling in userspace to appear hung.


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