7.1

CVE-2026-31778

ALSA: caiaq: fix stack out-of-bounds read in init_card

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ALSA: caiaq: fix stack out-of-bounds read in init_card

The loop creates a whitespace-stripped copy of the card shortname
where `len < sizeof(card->id)` is used for the bounds check. Since
sizeof(card->id) is 16 and the local id buffer is also 16 bytes,
writing 16 non-space characters fills the entire buffer,
overwriting the terminating nullbyte.

When this non-null-terminated string is later passed to
snd_card_set_id() -> copy_valid_id_string(), the function scans
forward with `while (*nid && ...)` and reads past the end of the
stack buffer, reading the contents of the stack.

A USB device with a product name containing many non-ASCII, non-space
characters (e.g. multibyte UTF-8) will reliably trigger this as follows:

  BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in copy_valid_id_string
       sound/core/init.c:696 [inline]
  BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in snd_card_set_id_no_lock+0x698/0x74c
       sound/core/init.c:718

The off-by-one has been present since commit bafeee5b1f8d ("ALSA:
snd_usb_caiaq: give better shortname") from June 2009 (v2.6.31-rc1),
which first introduced this whitespace-stripping loop. The original
code never accounted for the null terminator when bounding the copy.

Fix this by changing the loop bound to `sizeof(card->id) - 1`,
ensuring at least one byte remains as the null terminator.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 2.6.31 < 5.10.253
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.203
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.1.168
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.134
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.12.81
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.18.22
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.19 < 6.19.12
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CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 7.1 1.8 5.2
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02d9c5b0b5553a391448b6d655262bd829f90234
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f7f8bae0d52cbd07ab04b76b6aac89ef98ee9f6
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66194c2575a4f567577ae70b1d7561163ce791a6
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a82c1bce2d1299dd3c686a8fe48cf75b79a403c7
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3178b62e2e31bab39f63d4c8e54bf4ee0a425627
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3afa2e67f3523a980a2f90fd63c22322ac2b9ce0
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7594a6464873d90fd229e5b94cdd3b92c9feabed
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45424e871abf2a152e247a9cff78359f18dd95c0
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