CVE-2026-72262

ASoC: SOF: ipc3-control: Fix heap overflow in bytes_ext put/get

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Aug 15, 2026
Updated
Oct 16, 2026
Reserved
Aug 9, 2026

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Description

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

ASoC: SOF: ipc3-control: Fix heap overflow in bytes_ext put/get

The ipc_control_data buffer is allocated as kzalloc(max_size), where max_size covers the entire struct sof_ipc_ctrl_data including its flexible array payload. However, the bounds checks in bytes_ext_put and _bytes_ext_get compared user data lengths against max_size directly, ignoring that cdata->data sits at an offset of sizeof(struct sof_ipc_ctrl_data) bytes into the allocation.

This allowed writing up to sizeof(struct sof_ipc_ctrl_data) bytes past the end of the heap buffer from unprivileged userspace via the ALSA TLV kcontrol interface, and similarly allowed over-reading adjacent heap data on the get path.

Fix all bounds checks to subtract sizeof(*cdata) from max_size so they reflect the actual space available at the cdata->data offset. Also fix the error-path restore in bytes_ext_put which wrote to cdata->data instead of cdata, causing the same overflow.

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

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 67ec2a091630c28ea8d05db2bd7178a05b04b7e6 to before af4b437a463ac0482ba705434a44da06783778e6Affected
  • 67ec2a091630c28ea8d05db2bd7178a05b04b7e6 to before 1adde1941bba7b0d7104b86ed819d48d81cb0ad9Affected
  • 67ec2a091630c28ea8d05db2bd7178a05b04b7e6 to before eaa67e139c9217099e2a7b717aeeb46c65de3494Affected
  • 67ec2a091630c28ea8d05db2bd7178a05b04b7e6 to before 121577383b5cf221e86581e0f2bcca4c66f17469Affected
  • 67ec2a091630c28ea8d05db2bd7178a05b04b7e6 to before f4933e1d11b97b6a0951648b7c3e53850e1b33a9Affected
  • 67ec2a091630c28ea8d05db2bd7178a05b04b7e6 to before fd46668d538993218eea19c6925c868ac0f2630cAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.18Affected
  • before 5.18Not affected
  • 6.1.184 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.145 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.97 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.40 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.5 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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