CVE-2026-98860
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: bpf: cast size to ssize_t when checking hid_bpf_hw_request As reported by Sashiko: If a transport driver encounters a hardware error and returns a negative error code such as -EPIPE, ret is implicitly promoted to size_t when compared against size. This causes the negative error code to evaluate as a large positive number, making the (ret > size) condition true. This silently converts the hardware error into a success return value and copies the unmodified buffer back, which could leave BPF programs operating on uninitialized or stale data. Fix this by casting size into ssize_t to return the actual negative error code.
Properties
- Last source
- FIRST EPSS
- Nvd fetched at
- 2026-10-20T21:14:08.448323+00:00
- Epss score
- 0.00157
- Cve id
- CVE-2026-98860
- First seen by Signal
- 2026-10-18T18:05:59+00:00
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-21T01:24:51+00:00
- Published at
- 2026-10-18T16:17:40.470
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19T10:19:50.087
- Epss percentile
- 0.04412
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