CVE-2026-43047: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: multitouch: Check to ensure report responses match the request It is possible for a malicious (or clumsy) device to respond to a specific report's feature request using a completely different report ID. This can cause confusion in the HID core resulting in nasty side-effects such as OOB writes. Add a check to ensure that the report ID in the response, matches the one that was requested. If it doesn't, omit reporting the raw event and return early.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.4, before 5.10.253 (fixed in 5.10.253); from 5.11, before 5.15.203 (fixed in 5.15.203); from 5.16, before 6.1.168 (fixed in 6.1.168); from 6.2, before 6.6.134 (fixed in 6.6.134); from 6.7, before 6.12.81 (fixed in 6.12.81); from 6.13, before 6.18.22 (fixed in 6.18.22); …

Published 2026-05-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.