CVE-2026-64490 PUBLISHED

ALSA: virtio: Validate control metadata from the device

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: virtio: Validate control metadata from the device

virtio-snd control handling trusts the device-provided control type and value count returned by the device.

That metadata is then used directly to index g_v2a_type_map[] in virtsnd_kctl_info(), and to size loops and memcpy() operations in virtsnd_kctl_get() and virtsnd_kctl_put() against fixed-size virtio_snd_ctl_value and snd_ctl_elem_value arrays.

A buggy or malicious device can therefore trigger out-of-bounds access by advertising an invalid control type or an oversized value count.

Validate control type and count once in virtsnd_kctl_parse_cfg(), before querying enumerated items or exposing the control to ALSA.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from d6568e3de42dd971a1356f7ba581e6600d53f0a0 to 3243563f99ef5d3949b934bd6390a5679405d0e1 (excl.)
  • affected from d6568e3de42dd971a1356f7ba581e6600d53f0a0 to 5da9742de22db0dbaa8d414214ab5e1bedde00f9 (excl.)
  • affected from d6568e3de42dd971a1356f7ba581e6600d53f0a0 to 21584672fd699abe1768241d6c501b2de6139b6a (excl.)
  • affected from d6568e3de42dd971a1356f7ba581e6600d53f0a0 to c77a6cbb36ff8cbc1f084d94f8dcda5250935271 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.9 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.9 (excl.)
  • 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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