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CVE-2026-23089

ALSA: usb-audio: Fix use-after-free in snd_usb_mixer_free() PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usb-audio: Fix use-after-free in snd_usb_mixer_free() When snd_usb_create_mixer() fails, snd_usb_mixer_free() frees mixer->id_elems but the controls already added to the card still reference the freed memory. Later when snd_card_register() runs, the OSS mixer layer calls their callbacks and hits a use-after-free read. Call trace: get_ctl_value+0x63f/0x820 sound/usb/mixer.c:411 get_min_max_with_quirks.isra.0+0x240/0x1f40 sound/usb/mixer.c:1241 mixer_ctl_feature_info+0x26b/0x490 sound/usb/mixer.c:1381 snd_mixer_oss_build_test+0x174/0x3a0 sound/core/oss/mixer_oss.c:887 ... snd_card_register+0x4ed/0x6d0 sound/core/init.c:923 usb_audio_probe+0x5ef/0x2a90 sound/usb/card.c:1025 Fix by calling snd_ctl_remove() for all mixer controls before freeing id_elems. We save the next pointer first because snd_ctl_remove() frees the current element.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 6639b6c2367f884ca172b78d69f7da17bfab2e5e before 51b1aa6fe7dc87356ba58df06afb9677c9b841ea; affected 6639b6c2367f884ca172b78d69f7da17bfab2e5e before 56fb6efd5d04caf6f14994d51ec85393b9a896c6; affected 6639b6c2367f884ca172b78d69f7da17bfab2e5e before 7009daeefa945973a530b2f605fe445fc03747af; affected 6639b6c2367f884ca172b78d69f7da17bfab2e5e before 7bff0156d13f0ad9436e5178b979b063d59f572a; affected 6639b6c2367f884ca172b78d69f7da17bfab2e5e before e6f103a22b08daf5df2f4aa158081840e5910963; affected 6639b6c2367f884ca172b78d69f7da17bfab2e5e before dc1a5dd80af1ee1f29d8375b12dd7625f6294dad; affected 6639b6c2367f884ca172b78d69f7da17bfab2e5e before 930e69757b74c3ae083b0c3c7419bfe7f0edc7b2
Linux / Linuxaffected 2.6.13; unaffected 0 before 2.6.13; unaffected 5.10.249 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.199 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.162 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.122 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.68 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.8 through 6.18.*; unaffected 6.19 through *

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