CVE-2026-80829 PUBLISHED

ALSA: usb-audio: fix OOB write in snd_usbmidi_novation_output()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 26.08.2026 Published: 04.09.2026 Updated: 04.09.2026

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

ALSA: usb-audio: fix OOB write in snd_usbmidi_novation_output()

snd_usbmidi_novation_output() lays out a two-byte header at transfer_buffer[0..1] and passes &transfer_buffer[2] together with a length of ep->max_transfer - 2 to snd_rawmidi_transmit():

<pre>count = snd_rawmidi_transmit(ep->ports[0].substream, &transfer_buffer[2], ep->max_transfer - 2); </pre>

ep->max_transfer comes from the output endpoint's wMaxPacketSize via usb_maxpacket(). A malformed or malicious device can advertise a bulk OUT endpoint with a wMaxPacketSize of 1 - the USB core only clamps this value downwards - so ep->max_transfer becomes 1 and the count argument becomes -1.

snd_rawmidi_transmit() passes the negative count on to __snd_rawmidi_transmit_peek(), where "if (count1 > count) count1 = count" leaves count1 negative; get_aligned_size() keeps it negative for a byte-stream substream, so the following memcpy(buffer, ..., count1) runs with a (size_t)-1 length and writes far past the transfer buffer, which was allocated with usb_alloc_coherent(ep->max_transfer).

This is the same class of bug that was fixed for snd_usbmidi_akai_output() in commit 0970274613fb ("ALSA: usb-audio: fix OOB write in snd_usbmidi_akai_output()"); the novation output routine was left unguarded. Bail out when the endpoint cannot hold the two-byte header plus at least one payload byte.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 558fc4485ecc704edfe7876d6cebae4738ff7ef8 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 9c8212436631b0063cb021e9f58df438e3db84d0 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to e9c00d7533f99aa9833c4b598f47e3b3202fdb9a (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 94e4562fcc81badd1d467ddfb88c27e4fae974c2 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 7639ec9755d3ec0ec8cd7c0fdd2c3d3997434870 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 91919b3b99ab7ce3d7dbb39fcf7c6c742a663c0c (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 7f00dbddb51f4f74325cdc7c3f6b19fb3392481a (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 1074c2306901b44ebcb83855583c6776e1e392ea (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 1035a8f63bae28e498b0e7b5ac91d749844a7158 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 2.6.12 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 2.6.12 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.269 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.220 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.187 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.156 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.108 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.49 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.13 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.3 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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