# CVE-2026-31524

> Vulnerability · severity: **MEDIUM** (CVSS 5.5).

## Description

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

HID: asus: avoid memory leak in asus_report_fixup()

The asus_report_fixup() function was returning a newly allocated
kmemdup()-allocated buffer, but never freeing it.  Switch to
devm_kzalloc() to ensure the memory is managed and freed automatically
when the device is removed.

The caller of report_fixup() does not take ownership of the returned
pointer, but it is permitted to return a pointer whose lifetime is at
least that of the input buffer.

Also fix a harmless out-of-bounds read by copying only the original
descriptor size.

## Key facts

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2026-31524
- **Published:** 2026-04-22
- **CVSS severity:** MEDIUM
- **CVSS base score:** 5.5
- **CWE codes:** CWE-401

## Affected products

- `linux:linux_kernel`

## Primary sources

- NIST NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-31524

## Citation

> AI Analytics. CVE-2026-31524. Retrieved 2026-08-12 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/cve/CVE-2026-31524. Derived from NIST NVD. Licensed CC0.

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