CVE-2026-43279 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 01.05.2026 Published: 06.05.2026 Updated: 06.05.2026

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.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to fa01973bb79d70c4736b6a4b2de99fbb2cbc8d1f (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 780dc57794a217b49994fa1d0b42465fb10a00aa (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 8995fc0e00b3fee9bf7ecb3d836b635b730c1049 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to fc9e5af60dc199051dc202ae78e1fe76a9977a5e (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 6af16f1b8649df4c00d6ced924bdd8b72c885b6a (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to ccaf9296763be4f76b59e2cac377006016c34435 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to fba2105a157fffcf19825e4eea498346738c9948 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • unaffected from 5.15.202 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.165 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.128 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.75 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.16 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.6 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0 to * (incl.)

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