HID: pidff: Fix condition effect bit clearing

published 2026-03-25 7 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2026-15319

cvss: 5.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.1%; EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 2%
public exploits: 0; none known

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

As reported by MPDarkGuy on discord, NULL pointer dereferences were happening because not all the conditional effects bits were cleared.

Properly clear all conditional effect bits from ffbit

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 1 links 3

Linux Linux 6.18.17, 6.19.7, 7.0

linux Debian 14 6.19.8-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23349

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-23349 updated 2026-11-05 cvss 5.5

kernel: HID: pidff: Fix condition effect bit clearing

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more
affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 2% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Technology feeds

Linux kernel rss critical rss

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2026-23349
NVD CVE-2026-23349

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Summary