CVE-2026-74639 PUBLISHED

ALSA: us144mkii: re-anchor capture URBs on resubmission

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 15.08.2026 Published: 22.08.2026 Updated: 22.08.2026

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

ALSA: us144mkii: re-anchor capture URBs on resubmission

capture_urb_complete() resubmits each capture URB without anchoring it:

<pre>usb_get_urb(urb); ret = usb_submit_urb(urb, GFP_ATOMIC); </pre>

Anchoring is a property of a submission, not of the URB. The giveback path calls usb_unanchor_urb() before urb->complete(), so an URB resubmitted from its own completion handler is off the anchor. The capture URBs are anchored once, at stream start, so from the first completion onward tascam->capture_anchor is empty.

tascam_free_urbs(), tascam_disconnect(), tascam_suspend() and the stop-work path all call usb_kill_anchored_urbs(&tascam->capture_anchor) to reap the capture URBs before anything is freed. With the anchor empty those calls return immediately and the URBs stay queued on the host controller.

tascam_free_urbs() then returns the capture transfer buffers with usb_free_coherent(), and snd_card_free() releases the snd_card allocation that embeds tascam (card->private_data). The controller completes the queued URBs afterwards, writing device-supplied data into the freed transfer buffer, and capture_urb_complete() dereferences the freed driver object.

KASAN on 7.2.0-rc5 (arm64):

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in dummy_timer Write of size 512 at addr ffff000015b62000 __asan_memcpy dummy_timer hrtimer_run_softirq Allocated by task 64: usb_alloc_coherent tascam_alloc_urbs tascam_probe Freed by task 170: usb_free_coherent tascam_free_urbs tascam_disconnect usb_unbind_interface

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in capture_urb_complete Read of size 4 at addr ffff0000170ee878 Freed by task 170: release_card_device snd_card_free tascam_disconnect

Restore the usb_anchor_urb() between the reference count bump and the resubmission. That also makes the handler's usb_unanchor_urb() failure arm meaningful again and restores usb_kill_anchored_urbs() as a barrier on the disconnect, suspend and stop-work paths.

The anchoring was removed on the premise that the URB is already anchored from the initial submission, which does not hold once the first giveback has run.

Discovered by XBOW, triaged by Baul Lee baul.lee@xbow.com

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 16f14f55141d4c55c3f321f93c328fff7cd6860a to 7779249561d14b8a17c0c83783225794e24a587d (excl.)
  • affected from ab1db64912428cdf06a4f9542e16e0575e9ad59f to a5548ce916594c811bd90ce33d67baa3557a6791 (excl.)
  • affected from 5cff1529a2f9b3461a7f5a6e36a86682fc290534 to 2615f0fb90df8cf5a96133ca4be74294ed288604 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 6.18.39 to 6.18.45 (excl.)
  • affected from 7.1.4 to 7.1.9 (excl.)

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