Out-of-bounds Read Affecting kernel-tools package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS10-KERNELTOOLS-16371752
  • published4 May 2026
  • disclosed1 May 2026

Introduced: 1 May 2026

NewCVE-2026-43048  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:10 kernel-tools.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools package and not the kernel-tools package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

HID: core: Mitigate potential OOB by removing bogus memset()

The memset() in hid_report_raw_event() has the good intention of clearing out bogus data by zeroing the area from the end of the incoming data string to the assumed end of the buffer. However, as we have previously seen, doing so can easily result in OOB reads and writes in the subsequent thread of execution.

The current suggestion from one of the HID maintainers is to remove the memset() and simply return if the incoming event buffer size is not large enough to fill the associated report.

Suggested-by Benjamin Tissoires <bentiss@kernel.org>

[bentiss: changed the return value]

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