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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-68091

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 8/10/2026 8:17:21 AM

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

HID: wacom: stop hardware after post-start probe failures

wacom_parse_and_register() starts HID hardware before registering inputs
and initializing pad LEDs/remotes. Those later steps can fail, but their
error paths currently release Wacom resources without stopping the HID
hardware.

Route post-hid_hw_start() failures through hid_hw_stop() before
releasing driver resources.

This issue was identified during our ongoing static-analysis research while
reviewing kernel code.
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a1ebdcb56ae58a0ee2c54dd15d75121e30424e3
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e6473a4f0596182acdda5219b4bebfbee76514f
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/416095e9a6037b4b39fcadd0d2bd77a8852211ec
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46d8b8c85ae0589fb85746a64e8908160e52aac3
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a7ca028facf04921b2c1c2e4d1ee7f282510555
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75eb2173b63ab41c24d80cd641af18f3c117a267
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2cc711a9df37f359159b21db56cea9c21f58a9c
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec2612b8ad9e642596db011dd8b6568ef1edeaa1
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