Bug 2536538 (CVE-2026-90197) - CVE-2026-90197 kernel: HID: haptic: don't write an uninitialized value to unhandled usages
Summary: CVE-2026-90197 kernel: HID: haptic: don't write an uninitialized value to unh...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-90197
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-17 18:20 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-13 13:14 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-17 18:20:20 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

HID: haptic: don't write an uninitialized value to unhandled usages

fill_effect_buf() initializes value only for the four haptic usages
handled by its switch, but writes it to field->value[] for every usage.
An unhandled usage can therefore receive either an uninitialized value
or one left over from the previous usage. hid_output_report() then
serializes that value into the effect's report buffer.

Skip unhandled usages instead. This also matches switch_mode(), which
only updates fields it recognizes.

Found with Clang's -Wconditional-uninitialized.


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