7.8

CVE-2026-53193

ALSA: timer: Forcibly close timer instances at closing

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

ALSA: timer: Forcibly close timer instances at closing

When snd_timer object is freed via snd_timer_free() and still pending
snd_timer_instance objects are assigned to the timer object, it tries
to unlink all instances and just set NULL to each ti->timer, then
releases the resources immediately.  The problem is, however, when
there are slave timer instances that are associated with a master
instance linked to this timer: namely, those slave instances still
point to the freed timer object although the master instance is
unlinked, which may lead to user-after-free.  The bug can be easily
triggered particularly when a new userspace-driven timers
(CONFIG_SND_UTIMER) is involved, since it can create and delete the
timer object via a simple file open/close, while the other
applications may keep accessing to that timer.

This patch is an attempt to paper over the problem above: now instead
of just unlinking, call snd_timer_close[_locked]() forcibly for each
pending timer instance, so that all assigned slave timer instances are
properly detached, too.  Since snd_timer_close() might be called later
by the driver that created that instance, the check of
SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_DEAD is added at the beginning, too.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.12 < 6.12.94
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.18.36
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.19 < 7.0.13
LinuxLinux Kernel Version7.1 Updaterc1
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.14% 0.038
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 7.8 1.8 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-416 Use After Free

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/586b219a22b1032b28b8bd356b963276c5e5bf53
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f46093dd22969037beb1fce2e043f3236be41c92
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60e73ab87b84bbd6bd7ddd1d16019a3a3705ab8f
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da3039e91d1f835874ed6e9a33ea19ee80c2cb92
Patch