CVE-2026-43279

ALSA: usb-audio: Add sanity check for OOB writes at silencing

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
May 6, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
May 1, 2026

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Description

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

ALSA: usb-audio: Add sanity check for OOB writes at silencing

At silencing the playback URB packets in the implicit fb mode before the actual playback, we blindly assume that the received packets fit with the buffer size. But when the setup in the capture stream differs from the playback stream (e.g. due to the USB core limitation of max packet size), such an inconsistency may lead to OOB writes to the buffer, resulting in a crash.

For addressing it, add a sanity check of the transfer buffer size at prepare_silent_urb(), and stop the data copy if the received data overflows. Also, report back the transfer error properly from there, too.

Note that this doesn't fix the root cause of the playback error itself, but this merely covers the kernel Oops.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • c75a8a7ae565d7cd9baa87a504ba9162e355b4b0 to before fa01973bb79d70c4736b6a4b2de99fbb2cbc8d1fAffected
  • c75a8a7ae565d7cd9baa87a504ba9162e355b4b0 to before 780dc57794a217b49994fa1d0b42465fb10a00aaAffected
  • c75a8a7ae565d7cd9baa87a504ba9162e355b4b0 to before 8995fc0e00b3fee9bf7ecb3d836b635b730c1049Affected
  • c75a8a7ae565d7cd9baa87a504ba9162e355b4b0 to before fc9e5af60dc199051dc202ae78e1fe76a9977a5eAffected
  • c75a8a7ae565d7cd9baa87a504ba9162e355b4b0 to before 6af16f1b8649df4c00d6ced924bdd8b72c885b6aAffected
  • c75a8a7ae565d7cd9baa87a504ba9162e355b4b0 to before ccaf9296763be4f76b59e2cac377006016c34435Affected
  • c75a8a7ae565d7cd9baa87a504ba9162e355b4b0 to before fba2105a157fffcf19825e4eea498346738c9948Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.5Affected
  • before 3.5Not affected
  • 5.15.202 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.165 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.128 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.75 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.16 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19.6 through 6.19.*Not affected
  • 7.0 and laterNot affected

References

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