# CVE-2023-53640: ASoC: lpass: Fix for KASAN use\_after\_free out of bounds

- Severity: CVSS 7.3 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-10-07 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.12

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: lpass: Fix for KASAN use_after_free out of bounds When we run syzkaller we get below Out of Bounds error. "KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in regcache_flat_read" Below is the backtrace of the issue: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in regcache_flat_read+0x10c/0x110 Read of size 4 at addr ffffff8088fbf714 by task syz-executor.4/14144 CPU: 6 PID: 14144 Comm: syz-executor.4 Tainted: G W Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. sc7280 CRD platform (rev5+) (DT) Call trace: dump_backtrace+0x0/0x4ec show_stack+0x34/0x50 dump_stack_lvl+0xdc/0x11c print_address_description+0x30/0x2d8 kasan_report+0x178/0x1e4 __asan_report_load4_noabort+0x44/0x50 regcache_flat_read+0x10c/0x110 regcache_read+0xf8/0x5a0 _regmap_read+0x45c/0x86c _regmap_update_bits+0x128/0x290 regmap_update_bits_base+0xc0/0x15c snd_soc_component_update_bits+0xa8/0x22c snd_soc_component_write_field+0x68/0xd4 tx_macro_put_dec_enum+0x1d0/0x268 snd_ctl_elem_write+0x288/0x474 By Error checking and checking valid values issue gets rectifies.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f1512d78b5de928f4616a871e77b58fd546e651
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d81d3b0ed3610d24191d24f8e9e20f6775f0cc5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5e61e3fe799ba2fda4320af23d26d28c3302045
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75e5fab7db0cecb6e16b22c34608f0b40a4c7cd1

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