# CVE-2023-53400: ALSA: hda: Fix Oops by 9.1 surround channel names

- Severity: CVSS 5.5 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-09-18 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 3.9

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: hda: Fix Oops by 9.1 surround channel names get_line_out_pfx() may trigger an Oops by overflowing the static array with more than 8 channels. This was reported for MacBookPro 12,1 with Cirrus codec. As a workaround, extend for the 9.1 channels and also fix the potential Oops by unifying the code paths accessing the same array with the proper size check.

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## Related

- Browse: [Linux kernel](https://cve.now/tech/linux-kernel.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/082dcd51667b29097500c824c37f24da997a6a8a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5694aae4c2d9a288bafce7d38f122769e0428e6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ef155ddf9578bf035964d58739fdcd7dd44b4a4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/546b1f5f45a355ae0d3a8041cdaca597dfcac825
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8c7d7c43d5edd20e518fe1dfb2371d1fe6e8bb8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc8c569d59f17b17d7bca4f68c36bd571659921e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcf637461019e9a5a0c12fc5c42a9db1779b0634
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b44ec8c5c44790a82f07e90db45643c762878c6

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