Vulnerability details

CVE-2026-23191

Linux Linux

ALSA: aloop: Fix racy access at PCM trigger

CVSS 3.1
7.8High

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: aloop: Fix racy access at PCM trigger The PCM trigger callback of aloop driver tries to check the PCM state and stop the stream of the tied substream in the corresponding cable. Since both check and stop operations are performed outside the cable lock, this may result in UAF when a program attempts to trigger frequently while opening/closing the tied stream, as spotted by fuzzers. For addressing the UAF, this patch changes two things: - It covers the most of code in loopback_check_format() with cable->lock spinlock, and add the proper NULL checks. This avoids already some racy accesses. - In addition, now we try to check the state of the capture PCM stream that may be stopped in this function, which was the major pain point leading to UAF.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
7.8High 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (Linux) CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
Linux Linux 2.6.37 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux b1c73fc8e697eb73e23603e465e9af2711ed4183 ≤ v < c99be0d5af02adebe9cb6f9869d20397fa9935a3 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux b1c73fc8e697eb73e23603e465e9af2711ed4183 ≤ v < f3ce8be893726899e3053cf8059ecc95d8410359 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux b1c73fc8e697eb73e23603e465e9af2711ed4183 ≤ v < 0e6245b2424d126ac90018142d09f0707e12998b CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux b1c73fc8e697eb73e23603e465e9af2711ed4183 ≤ v < f57467114f40c5aacebbea96fb4ff9e5cd2b7f18 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux b1c73fc8e697eb73e23603e465e9af2711ed4183 ≤ v < 5727ccf9d19ca414cb76d9b647883822e2789c2e CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux b1c73fc8e697eb73e23603e465e9af2711ed4183 ≤ v < 826af7fa62e347464b1b4e0ba2fe19a92438084f CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux b1c73fc8e697eb73e23603e465e9af2711ed4183 ≤ v < bad15420050db1803767e58756114800cce91ea4 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2026-02-14
Last updated
2026-10-19
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
Linux

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.13%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
2.8%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
No
Exploitation
None
Technical impact
Total

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-362
    Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')