CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-96675
4.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-09-23
- Last modified
- 2026-09-24
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 4.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 3.3 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-129
Description
alsa-lib through 1.2.16.1 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the multi PCM plugin that fails to validate sparse binding indices before array access. Attackers can supply a malicious ALSA configuration file with sparse bindings to trigger an out-of-bounds array read and assertion failure, causing the application to abort.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-129 Improper Validation of Array Index weakness
References
- https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib github.com
- https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib/blob/v1.2.16.1/src/pcm/pcm_multi.c#L1122-L1131 github.com
- https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib/pull/527 github.com
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/alsa-lib-through-1.2.16.1-denial-of-service-via-pcm-multi www.vulncheck.com