# CVE-2024-44954: ALSA: line6: Fix racy access to midibuf

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-09-04 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 2.6.30

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: line6: Fix racy access to midibuf There can be concurrent accesses to line6 midibuf from both the URB completion callback and the rawmidi API access. This could be a cause of KMSAN warning triggered by syzkaller below (so put as reported-by here). This patch protects the midibuf call of the former code path with a spinlock for avoiding the possible races.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/643293b68fbb6c03f5e907736498da17d43f0d81
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40f3d5cb0e0cbf7fa697913a27d5d361373bdcf5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7e7d2b180d8f297cea6db43ea72402fd33e1a29
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a54da4b787dcac60b598da69c9c0072812b8282d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c80f454a805443c274394b1db0d1ebf477abd94e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/535df7f896a568a8a1564114eaea49d002cb1747
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51d87f11dd199bbc6a85982b088ff27bde53b48a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15b7a03205b31bc5623378c190d22b7ff60026f1

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