CVE-2026-98086 PUBLISHED

ALSA: ump: do not touch legacy_rmidi before it exists

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 25.09.2026 Updated: 25.09.2026

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

ALSA: ump: do not touch legacy_rmidi before it exists

snd_ump_parse_endpoint() sets ump->parsed on every exit, including error, before the caller attaches the legacy rawmidi device. ump_handle_ep_name_msg() then treats parsed as "legacy_rmidi is live" and calls ump_legacy_set_rawmidi_name(), which snprintf()s into ump->legacy_rmidi->name. If a UMP packet arrives in that window (IRQ path from snd_ump_receive), legacy_rmidi is still NULL (KASAN null-ptr-deref in snprintf).

Guard the legacy helpers. parsed only means endpoint info was parsed, not that legacy_rmidi exists.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 37e0e14128e0685267dc5c037bf655421a6ce2ea to 1c8e01792adf91879322f1ad752f1814de8b7e7d (excl.)
  • affected from 37e0e14128e0685267dc5c037bf655421a6ce2ea to 228075f31b141395233218712242913125ace4e0 (excl.)
  • affected from 37e0e14128e0685267dc5c037bf655421a6ce2ea to a4cef20cd473e0640fefd38094d4baac0ec76ae3 (excl.)
  • affected from 37e0e14128e0685267dc5c037bf655421a6ce2ea to adeee7187694719890aaffdc14b7e89cfd736f1d (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.5 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.5 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.111 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.53 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.7 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc2 to * (incl.)

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