CVE-2026-64487 PUBLISHED

ALSA: caiaq: fix out-of-bounds read in the Traktor Kontrol S4 input parser

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 19.07.2026 Published: 25.07.2026 Updated: 25.07.2026

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

ALSA: caiaq: fix out-of-bounds read in the Traktor Kontrol S4 input parser

snd_usb_caiaq_tks4_dispatch() decodes the Traktor Kontrol S4 input stream in fixed 16-byte (TKS4_MSGBLOCK_SIZE) message blocks. On every iteration it advances buf and subtracts the block size while looping on "while (len)".

len is urb->actual_length. That value is supplied by the device and is not guaranteed to be a multiple of 16. When a final short block leaves len between 1 and 15, the loop runs once more, reads up to buf[15], and then does "len -= TKS4_MSGBLOCK_SIZE". As len is unsigned this underflows to a huge value. The loop then keeps iterating and walking buf far past the end of the 512-byte ep4_in_buf, reading out of bounds until a bogus block id happens to be hit.

Iterate only while a full message block is available. This stops the unsigned underflow and silently drops any trailing partial block, which carries no complete control value anyway.

The sibling endpoint-4 parsers are not affected. The Traktor Kontrol X1 and Maschine arms in snd_usb_caiaq_ep4_reply_dispatch() floor urb->actual_length before dispatching.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 15c5ab607045e278ebf4d2ca4aea2250617d50ca to de5f9edc705497b1b2c6b173b22f283486d2fd91 (excl.)
  • affected from 15c5ab607045e278ebf4d2ca4aea2250617d50ca to 70d6d4cfa4ad09688aed2ec8a0cfa72c31f60334 (excl.)
  • affected from 15c5ab607045e278ebf4d2ca4aea2250617d50ca to 884f575cc6acb136eb4a161d925147f85b59c27e (excl.)
  • affected from 15c5ab607045e278ebf4d2ca4aea2250617d50ca to 05df59b9a61f7ca66548df079d306c41da23845d (excl.)
  • affected from 15c5ab607045e278ebf4d2ca4aea2250617d50ca to 3cad86197c7bf8b45bb1d8adc1099d0913e80469 (excl.)
  • affected from 15c5ab607045e278ebf4d2ca4aea2250617d50ca to a5fd3122283bf75c04f6414bf610100beb0565b0 (excl.)
  • affected from 15c5ab607045e278ebf4d2ca4aea2250617d50ca to 0680413f2f10aab43878dd3db711a6a9e45bab7c (excl.)
  • affected from 15c5ab607045e278ebf4d2ca4aea2250617d50ca to f7f3f9fd81e7adbaa12c2e62ee07f0e094a543fd (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 2.6.37 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 2.6.37 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.261 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.212 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.178 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.145 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.96 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.39 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.4 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc1 to * (incl.)

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