Linux Kernel HID CVE-2026-43152

Update to a patched kernel version: 5.10.252, 5.15.202, 6.1.165, 6.6.128, 6.12.75, 6.18.16, 6.19.6, or 7.0. The individual upstream fix commits are available at https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78df3de826668fe842c6061a91bc1ed68f493e80, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/926e6715b48b575ed7754bf163a67686bb2eb111, and the other six referenced kernel.org commits. For Red Hat and SUSE deployments, monitor vendor security portals for distribution-packaged kernel updates. As a compensating control where patching is not immediately possible, restrict unauthorized USB device attachment via udev authorization rules (echo 0 > /sys/bus/usb/devices/usbX/authorized disables specific ports) or deploy a USB device allowlist policy - this prevents the vulnerable hid-pl module from probing unrecognized HID devices. Alternatively, blacklisting the hid-pl module (echo 'blacklist hid-pl' >> /etc/modprobe.d/hid-pl-blacklist.conf) eliminates the attack surface entirely, at the cost of losing force feedback support for Pantherlord/GreenAsia controllers.