CVE-2026-53192
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: timer: Fix UAF at snd_timer_user_params()
At releasing a timer object, e.g. when a userspace timer
(CONFIG_SND_UTIMER) gets closed and snd_timer_free() is called, it
tries to detach the timer instances and release the resources.
However, it's still possible that other in-flight tasks are holding
the timer instance where the to-be-deleted timer object is associated,
and this may lead to racy accesses.
Fortunately, most of ioctls dealing with the timer instance list
already have the protection with register_mutex, and this also avoids
such races. But, SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_PARAMS isn't protected, hence the
concurrent ioctl may lead to use-after-free.
This patch just adds the guard with register_mutex to protect
snd_timer_user_params() for covering the code path as a quick
workaround. It's no hot-path but rather a rarely issued ioctl, so the
performance penalty doesn't matter.
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Affected products (2)
| Vendor | Product | Platform | Versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | — | 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 92ad2d7f80cad43b046f093e808e11fe919d304a, 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 117743d62e1225e208568a3ffc2c07214f1347cb, 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < b2214914e461d0466548a52dfe4f4ee8ce362276, 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < e2331730175f74169046d2af8db1b47243df7c7a … |
| Linux | Linux | — | 5.10.259 ≤ 5.10.*, 5.15.210 ≤ 5.15.*, 6.1.176 ≤ 6.1.*, 6.6.143 ≤ 6.6.* … |
References (8)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92ad2d7f80cad43b046f093e808e11fe919d304a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/117743d62e1225e208568a3ffc2c07214f1347cb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2214914e461d0466548a52dfe4f4ee8ce362276
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2331730175f74169046d2af8db1b47243df7c7a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38034d04d4a75bbca01df2b313ced0bcd0fa3242
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d39da65b5c422c5e5afb7d5651b0698d060a827
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/306427adf9b97e29e5958cb9cf3096c6151fc9ff
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/053a401b592be424fea9d57c789f66cd5d8cec11