CVE-2026-90781 PUBLISHED

alsa-lib through 1.2.16.1 Off-by-One Stack Buffer Overflow in __snd_ctl_ascii_elem_id_parse()

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 13.09.2026 Published: 13.09.2026 Updated: 13.09.2026

alsa-lib through 1.2.16.1 contains a stack buffer overflow in the __snd_ctl_ascii_elem_id_parse() function that writes one byte past a 64-byte buffer when parsing a name= field with 64 or more characters. Attackers can supply a long control-element identifier string through saved state files or command-line arguments to overwrite adjacent stack memory and crash the calling process.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 4.8

Product Status

Vendor ALSA Project
Product alsa-lib
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.2.16.1 (incl.)
  • Version f84cd4ced7b36fddb8e4ee24404cf7c091d27020 is unaffected

Credits

  • Harsh Raj Singhania finder

References

Problem Types

  • Off-by-one Error CWE