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        "cveId": "CVE-2026-98771",
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        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2026-09-25T10:25:14.369Z",
        "datePublished": "2026-10-18T15:48:07.367Z",
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                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: storage: sierra_ms: reject short SWoC info transfers\n\nsierra_get_swoc_info() requests sizeof(struct swoc_info) (60) bytes\nfrom the device via usb_control_msg(), but its callers only treat a\nnegative return value as failure. A device that answers the\nvendor-specific GetSwocInfo request with a short IN transfer is\ntherefore accepted, leaving the tail of the freshly allocated\n(kmalloc(), non-zeroing) swoc_info buffer uninitialized.\n\ntruinst_show() subsequently prints swocInfo->rev, swocInfo->LinuxSKU\nand swocInfo->LinuxVer from that buffer into the world-readable\n(0444) \"truinst\" sysfs attribute. An emulated/malicious USB device\n(VID 0x1199, PID 0x0fff) can exploit this to disclose up to 5 bytes\nof stale kernel heap memory (kmalloc-64) to unprivileged userspace,\nonce per sysfs read, indefinitely. On kernels built without\ninit_on_alloc this leaks recently freed heap contents.\n\nOnly accept the transfer when the full structure was received.\nsierra_ms_init() already retries failed queries, so well-behaved\ndevices are unaffected."
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