GLSA-202608-08 : libinput: Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 335322

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202608-08 (libinput: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libinput. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

All libinput users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=dev-libs/libinput-1.31.3

See Also

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=971879

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=976730

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202608-08

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 335322

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202608-08.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 8/14/2026

Updated: 8/14/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7

Percentile: 98.33

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-35094

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:libinput

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/14/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/1/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-35093, CVE-2026-35094