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CVE-2026-80829

ALSA: usb-audio: fix OOB write in snd_usbmidi_novation_output()

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Fix
Fixed in 5.10.269, 5.15.220, 6.1.187, 6.6.156, 6.12.108, and 3 more
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usb-audio: fix OOB write in snd_usbmidi_novation_output() snd_usbmidi_novation_output() lays out a two-byte header at transfer_buffer[0..1] and passes &transfer_buffer[2] together with a length of ep->max_transfer - 2 to snd_rawmidi_transmit(): count = snd_rawmidi_transmit(ep->ports[0].substream, &transfer_buffer[2], ep->max_transfer - 2); ep->max_transfer comes from the output endpoint's wMaxPacketSize via usb_maxpacket(). A malformed or malicious device can advertise a bulk OUT endpoint with a wMaxPacketSize of 1 - the USB core only clamps this value downwards - so ep->max_transfer becomes 1 and the count argument becomes -1. snd_rawmidi_transmit() passes the negative count on to __snd_rawmidi_transmit_peek(), where "if (count1 > count) count1 = count" leaves count1 negative; get_aligned_size() keeps it negative for a byte-stream substream, so the following memcpy(buffer, ..., count1) runs with a (size_t)-1 length and writes far past the transfer buffer, which was allocated with usb_alloc_coherent(ep->max_transfer). This is the same class of bug that was fixed for snd_usbmidi_akai_output() in commit 0970274613fb ("ALSA: usb-audio: fix OOB write in snd_usbmidi_akai_output()"); the novation output routine was left unguarded. Bail out when the endpoint cannot hold the two-byte header plus at least one payload byte.

Timeline

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Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    From 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 · fixed in 558fc4485ecc704edfe7876d6cebae4738ff7ef8; From 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 · fixed in 9c8212436631b0063cb021e9f58df438e3db84d0; From 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 · fixed in e9c00d7533f99aa9833c4b598f47e3b3202fdb9a; From 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 · fixed in 94e4562fcc81badd1d467ddfb88c27e4fae974c2; From 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 · fixed in 7639ec9755d3ec0ec8cd7c0fdd2c3d3997434870; From 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 · fixed in 91919b3b99ab7ce3d7dbb39fcf7c6c742a663c0c; From 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 · fixed in 7f00dbddb51f4f74325cdc7c3f6b19fb3392481a; From 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 · fixed in 1074c2306901b44ebcb83855583c6776e1e392ea; From 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 · fixed in 1035a8f63bae28e498b0e7b5ac91d749844a7158

  • Linux Linux

    2.6.12

  • KernelLinux

    From 2.6.12 · fixed in 5.10.269; From 5.11.0 · fixed in 5.15.220; From 5.16.0 · fixed in 6.1.187; From 6.2.0 · fixed in 6.6.156; From 6.7.0 · fixed in 6.12.108; From 6.13.0 · fixed in 6.18.49; From 6.19.0 · fixed in 7.1.13; From 7.2.0 · fixed in 7.2.3

References 9

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