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Ubuntu Security NoticesUSN-8753-1

USN-8753-1: libinput vulnerability

Severity not listed 0 CVEs Published Sep 14, 2026 at 12:28 PM UTC

Summary

It was discovered that libinput did not properly escape device properties. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary udev properties and execute arbitrary code as root.

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