# CVE-2025-39696: ALSA: hda: tas2781: Fix wrong reference of tasdevice\_priv

- 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
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-09-05 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 6.16

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: hda: tas2781: Fix wrong reference of tasdevice_priv During the conversion to unify the calibration data management, the reference to tasdevice_priv was wrongly set to h->hda_priv instead of h->priv. This resulted in memory corruption and crashes eventually. Unfortunately it's a void pointer, hence the compiler couldn't know that it's wrong.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2812815aa79637d39d4398ecd7e58f65d1c79231
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f4422e7c9436abf81a00270be7e4d6d3760ec0e

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