CVE-2026-43279

HIGH

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

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

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

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0012
EPSS Percentile 2.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (30)
linux/Kernel 3.5.0 - 5.15.202linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.165linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.18.16linux
linux/Kernel 6.19.0 - 6.19.6linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.128linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.75linux
Linux/Linux < 3.5
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 6af16f1b8649df4c00d6ced924bdd8b72c885b6a
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 780dc57794a217b49994fa1d0b42465fb10a00aa
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 8995fc0e00b3fee9bf7ecb3d836b635b730c1049
... and 20 more
Published May 06, 2026
Tracked Since May 06, 2026