CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98742
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-10-18
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: seq: Serialize compat port-info ioctls
The native sequencer ioctl path serializes handler calls with
client->ioctl_mutex, but the translated port-info compat path invokes the
same handlers through snd_seq_kernel_client_ctl() without taking that
mutex.
This lets concurrent compat CREATE_PORT requests pass the port-count
check before any request reaches the serialized insertion. The computed
integer port index can then exceed the address field range and wrap to an
existing index. Subsequent subscriber teardown can resolve the duplicate
address to the wrong port and access a freed subscriber.
Take ioctl_mutex while dispatching converted port-info requests, matching
the native ioctl path. All translated port-info commands share this
helper, so their accesses to the client port state are serialized as
well.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2db234e163f0d211b69a4eebbec8aacc5a54a80e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/413211dd31cb2ef2fc99fb0aa1a037a97509502c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/702d92f361f65d9698c473c7599d471395dc4341 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95b2e0361c88753afa030c10698be0a1a5b67650 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc5c52848e405b6efb073db5035bb9ebaed11ec4 git.kernel.org