Medium 5.5Published Mar 25, 2026

CVE-2026-23349HID: pidff: Fix condition effect bit clearing

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 10:30 AM ET)

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: pidff: Fix condition effect bit clearing 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

CVSS: 5.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Linux
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: May 11, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Linux Linux linux:linux (from the name)	from 7f3d7bc0df4bdc23d31cf0f90b6e20c45129465e before d1edc027a4b0bb4c7a2670b530590b4df6177011; from 7f3d7bc0df4bdc23d31cf0f90b6e20c45129465e before ef0e669dbceaf3d7bb4ae0b235fa61feabd92b0b; from 7f3d7bc0df4bdc23d31cf0f90b6e20c45129465e before 97d5c8f5c09a604c4873c8348f58de3cea69a7df	CNA record
linux linux_kernel linux:linux_kernel	from 6.18.1 before 6.18.17; from 6.19 before 6.19.7; 6.18; 7.0; 7.0; 7.0; 7.0; 7.0; and 2 more ranges	NVD

References

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1edc027a4b0bb4c7a2670b530590b4df6177011	patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef0e669dbceaf3d7bb4ae0b235fa61feabd92b0b	patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97d5c8f5c09a604c4873c8348f58de3cea69a7df	patch

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