HIDAPI joystick drivers may call HIDAPI_JoystickDisconnected() in their
UpdateDevice() function during HIDAPI_JoystickOpen(). If they do this
today, the opened joystick will end up partially initialized (no name,
path, mapping GUID, etc.) because HIDAPI_GetDeviceByIndex() will no
longer be able to find the SDL_HIDAPI_Device for the removed joystick.
Worse still, joystick->hwdata->device becomes a dangling freed pointer
the next time HIDAPI_UpdateDeviceList() is called. This leads to a UAF
when the application or SDL calls SDL_JoystickClose() on this joystick.
Fix all this by checking if the device no longer has any associated
joysticks after calling UpdateDevice() and failing the open call if so.
(cherry picked from commit 435e7ce663b7e568086c5dc0fb1bb889e41a3ed1)
Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform development library designed
to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics
hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D. It is used by video playback software,
emulators, and popular games including Valve's award winning catalog
and many Humble Bundle games.
More extensive documentation is available in the docs directory, starting
with README.md
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