CVE-2026-90060 PUBLISHED

ALSA: control: Don't add invalid kcontrols to LED layer

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

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

ALSA: control: Don't add invalid kcontrols to LED layer

The kcontrol LED state layer tries to track the all associated kcontrol elements with naive assumptions that they are readable. But one can create a write-only element that has no get callback (even a user element can do it), and this may lead to a NULL dereference at the call chain of snd_ctl_led_notify(), as found by syzkaller.

For avoiding the Oops, add a sanity check of the kcontrol's info and get callbacks, and just skip the invalid kcontrols before assigning the kctl to the LED layer.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 22d8de62f11b287b279f1d4473a78c7d5e53e7bc to 6e152cbfac3a2a62f79df7d23d621917c20367eb (excl.)
  • affected from 22d8de62f11b287b279f1d4473a78c7d5e53e7bc to 3d20cd049fc5f51f80e24a2db7a3cf00593c79e4 (excl.)
  • affected from 22d8de62f11b287b279f1d4473a78c7d5e53e7bc to 2f0c97b1a32fba8e81a69f6231aa0b3c9b6bc581 (excl.)
  • affected from 22d8de62f11b287b279f1d4473a78c7d5e53e7bc to 18c08f84ca483029f04e426ec7ca3b5d3684cf22 (excl.)
  • affected from 22d8de62f11b287b279f1d4473a78c7d5e53e7bc to 74e3b979ce8b78a690f8b94ccf2e2c965f7f5c11 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.13 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.13 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.188 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.110 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.52 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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