CVE-2026-89895 PUBLISHED

media: cobalt: Avoid freeing ALSA private data twice

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 16.09.2026 Updated: 16.09.2026

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

media: cobalt: Avoid freeing ALSA private data twice

snd_cobalt_card_create() stores cobsc in sc->private_data and installs snd_cobalt_card_private_free() as sc->private_free. From that point, snd_card_free(sc) releases cobsc through the ALSA card cleanup path.

If cobalt_alsa_init() fails after snd_cobalt_card_create(), the err_exit_free path calls snd_card_free(sc) and then kfree(cobsc). That second free releases the same object again.

Remove the explicit kfree(cobsc) and leave ownership with the ALSA card.

This issue was found by a static analysis checker and confirmed by manual source review.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 85756a069c55e0315ac5990806899cfb607b987f to 75bbf45e3a954e292ae26832d2df40ca2e3ee452 (excl.)
  • affected from 85756a069c55e0315ac5990806899cfb607b987f to fe65028ee72a7e07e572b351891bd7a1f8917d33 (excl.)
  • affected from 85756a069c55e0315ac5990806899cfb607b987f to 61dfa8ded5efc3a25d331fa9ce5cebb85531fe70 (excl.)
  • affected from 85756a069c55e0315ac5990806899cfb607b987f to 42e00371f83c3fc7b99a36bf0229c74ad5d3c7d8 (excl.)
  • affected from 85756a069c55e0315ac5990806899cfb607b987f to 6cbc8a73b3464ebeccc49987b7233b6b087b8504 (excl.)
  • affected from 85756a069c55e0315ac5990806899cfb607b987f to cb1218da234ea15fa14d90e2d049d686874d7aa3 (excl.)
  • affected from 85756a069c55e0315ac5990806899cfb607b987f to 8c6610e230b9355cf7df5a338a0592c0f088c00b (excl.)
  • affected from 85756a069c55e0315ac5990806899cfb607b987f to 3a7d6b9c4cb5ac18cbd3f1c7f8c7b159c42ba0b1 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.2 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.2 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.270 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.221 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.188 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.157 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.110 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.51 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.5 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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