# CVE-2026-64479: ALSA: seq: Fix uninitialised heap leak in snd\_seq\_event\_dup()

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-07-25 · Updated: 2026-08-17

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 6.5

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: seq: Fix uninitialised heap leak in snd_seq_event_dup() snd_seq_event_dup() copies an incoming event into a pool cell and, in the UMP-enabled build, clears the trailing cell->ump.raw.extra word that the memcpy() did not cover. The guard deciding whether to clear it compares the copied size against sizeof(cell->event): memcpy(&cell->ump, event, size); if (size < sizeof(cell->event)) cell->ump.raw.extra = 0; For a legacy (non-UMP) event, size == sizeof(struct snd_seq_event) == sizeof(cell->event), so the condition is false and the extra word keeps stale data. The cell pool is allocated with kvmalloc() (not zeroed) and cells are reused via a free list, so that word holds uninitialised heap or leftover event data. When such a cell is delivered to a UMP client (client->midi_version > 0) that set SNDRV_SEQ_FILTER_NO_CONVERT -- so the legacy event reaches it unconverted -- snd_seq_read() reads it out as the larger struct snd_seq_ump_event and copies the stale word to user space, a 4-byte kernel heap infoleak to an unprivileged /dev/snd/seq client. Compare against sizeof(cell->ump) instead, so the trailing word is zeroed for every event shorter than the UMP cell.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7649aa11089a93ea2285c210397aa67e5800766
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a224c84e5d3d35708c082c84ad12d81d90762195
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea672a9f6cc38f06fe69dd2c257ef8a3d4db179a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb1aa5082847b98f44f9c6272aee9d0dca9244f0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/651ba82fe2a144bc7356d940bfd235c3810b0549
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ded42615fa1f4949925afd0a8a9e1ab3bf96202
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/435990e25bf1f4af3e6df12a6fbfd1f7ba4a97d4

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