CVE-2026-80772

What the bug is

joycon_ctlr_read_handler() casts an incoming HID input report to struct joycon_input_report and parses it, guarding the cast only with a 12-byte length check: if (size >= 12) /* make sure it contains the input report */ joycon_parse_report(ctlr, (struct joycon_input_report *)data); struct joycon_input_report is 49 bytes: a 13-byte header followed by a union whose IMU arm is 36 bytes. For an IMU report joycon_parse_report() -> joycon_parse_imu_report() walks that union (struct offsets 13..48), so a report of exactly 12 bytes with data[0] == JC_INPUT_IMU_DATA passes the guard yet is read up to 37 bytes past its declared length. The over-read bytes are decoded into accelerometer/gyroscope values and forwarded to userspace through the "(IMU)" input device, leaking driver-internal memory. data[0] and size are fully controlled by a malicious or spoofed Joy-Con/Pro Controller. Receive buffers are sized to the maximum report length, so this is an over-read within the allocation rather than a slab OOB, but the decoded bytes still reach userspace. The sibling subcmd path in joycon_ctlr_handle_event() already bounds the same cast correctly: if (size < sizeof(struct joycon_input_report) || data[0] != JC_INPUT_SUBCMD_REPLY) break; Use the same sizeof(struct joycon_input_report) bound here.

Where it lives

The fix touches these files. If the subsystem is one you do not use, the practical exposure is lower, though the package is still the vulnerable one.

drivers/hid/hid-nintendo.c

What this is

NINTENDO HID DRIVERMAINTAINERS section matched on drivers/hid/hid-nintendo* · linux-input@vger.kernel.org · Maintained

Kernel module

hid_nintendo

Check it on the machine

grep -wE 'CONFIG_HID|CONFIG_HID_NINTENDO|CONFIG_HID_SUPPORT' /boot/config-$(uname -r)

Reads the booted kernel's own configuration, on the machine and nowhere else. =y is built in, =m is a module, and an is not set line means the code is not there.

lsmod | grep -w hid_nintendo

Prints a line if that module is loaded right now, and nothing if it is not. One that is not loaded can still be loaded later by anything that needs it.

Show whether Debian builds this, per release

Debian builds this, but not on every flavour. At least one release below builds the code on some of its kernel flavours and not on others, so the answer depends on the architecture and flavour installed.

• bookworm, trixieMnot built on arm64/cloud-arm64
• forky, sidMnot built on amd64/cloud-amd64, arm64/cloud-arm64
• bookworm · linux-6.12Mnot built on arm64/cloud-arm64

M

a module where it is built at all; some flavours do not build it

Build switches

CONFIG_HID, CONFIG_HID_NINTENDO, CONFIG_HID_SUPPORT

Reads as

all on means the file is compiled; any one off means it is not.

From the configuration Debian publishes for every kernel flavour it builds. It covers only the architectures Debian ships a linux-config package for, and nothing about a kernel you built yourself. Debian's own status above stays authoritative about the source package.MAINTAINERS kbuild Makefiles Debian linux-config packages

Signals

Published

2026-09-04 (44 days ago)source

CVSS

no vector published, unrated

Attack vector

not published

EPSS

0.21%, higher than 11.0% of all CVEssource

CISA KEV

not listedthe KEV catalogue

Debian urgency

not yet assignedsource

Subsystem

drivers/hid

Upstream fixes

The versions the CNA records as introducing and fixing this, and the commit for each. source

Introduced	Fixed in	Commit
5.16	6.1.185	33ea29f8b614
5.16	6.6.154	bd397c4123a4
5.16	6.12.106	addca61f9a23
5.16	6.18.47	51cfd1adbe7a
5.16	7.1.11	d4cabd4089ad
5.16	7.2.1	34725ed4719d
5.16	7.3	27b376b945c0

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