CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98428
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-10-14
- Last modified
- 2026-10-26
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: usb: 6fire: Avoid embedded URBs
The USB 6fire driver uses URBs embedded in different structs for PCM,
MIDI and communication, and this is basically a buggy implementation
nowadays; since a URB is managed with a refcount, this may lead to a
UAF when the URB is released asynchronously.
For addressing the problem, this patch converts those embedded URBs to
ones that are properly allocated via usb_alloc_urb(). The
pcm_urb.packets[] is gone, as it's allocated by usb_alloc_urb(), hence
it's found in urb.iso_frame_desc[] instead.
The conversions are rather straightforward; each embedded struct urb
is changed to a pointer, and its callers are updated accordingly.
The resource for those structs are released in the common destructor
functions (usb6fire_comm_free(), etc), which are called at both the
init error path and the disconnect.
No functional changes, only compile-tested.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ef9093d83ffecb8e5f6c9d5769a52d39df74f7a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/52a43c2d57e774489ac3fbbac06ff02f19bd9a52 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b8559aeaba2e51cfee1779b2383b085991f7d81 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/999f433c09e4668412bd68ca207ae2b4af863862 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9fe49dbc023e82dfaee7b245997d820d01742a9a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d181434549b3da668110a25d743848cce9897f4e git.kernel.org