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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-74388

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 8/15/2026 2:22:40 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

ALSA: seq: oss: Fix UAF at handling events with embedded SysEx data

The OSS sequencer processes the input MIDI bytes into a sequencer
event to be dispatched later (in snd_seq_oss_midi_putc() called from
snd_seq_oss_process_event()).  When it's a SysEx data, the event
record contains data.ext.ptr pointer to the original SysEx bytes, and
the referred data is copied into the pool afterwards at dispatching.
The problem is that, if the sequencer port gets closed concurrently
before the dispatch, the OSS sequencer core also releases the
resources (in snd_seq_oss_midi_check_exit_port()), while the pending
event may hold a stale pointer, eventually leading to a UAF at a later
dispatch.

Fortunately, there is already a refcounting mechanism (snd_use_lock_t)
for the OSS MIDI device access, and for addressing the issue above, we
just need to extend the refcount until the event gets dispatched.

This patch extends snd_seq_oss_process_event() to give back the
refcount object, which is in turn released after calling the sequencer
dispatcher with the given event in the caller side.

According to the original report, KASAN report as below:

KASAN slab-use-after-free in snd_seq_event_dup+0x40c/0x470
RIP: 0033:0x7f2cb66a6340
Read of size 6
Call trace:
  dump_stack_lvl+0x73/0xb0 (?:?)
  print_report+0xd1/0x650 (?:?)
  srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 (?:?)
  __virt_addr_valid+0x1a7/0x340 (?:?)
  kasan_complete_mode_report_info+0x64/0x200 (?:?)
  kasan_report+0xf7/0x130 (?:?)
  snd_seq_event_dup+0x40c/0x470 (?:?)
  kasan_check_range+0x10c/0x1c0 (?:?)
  __asan_memcpy+0x27/0x70 (?:?)
  snd_seq_event_dup+0x9/0x470 (?:?)
  snd_seq_client_enqueue_event+0x139/0x240 (?:?)
  _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x4b/0x60 (?:?)
  snd_seq_kernel_client_enqueue+0x102/0x120 (?:?)
  snd_seq_oss_write+0x416/0x4e0 (?:?)
  apparmor_file_permission+0x20/0x30 (?:?)
  odev_write+0x3b/0x60 (?:?)
  vfs_write+0x1ce/0x850 (?:?)
  lock_release+0xc8/0x2a0 (?:?)
  __kasan_check_write+0x18/0x20 (?:?)
  __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x129/0x510 (?:?)
  ksys_write+0xe1/0x180 (?:?)
  mutex_unlock+0x16/0x20 (?:?)
  odev_ioctl+0x65/0xc0 (?:?)
  __x64_sys_write+0x46/0x60 (?:?)
  x64_sys_call+0x7d/0x20d0 (?:?)
  do_syscall_64+0xc1/0x360 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:87)
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f (?:?)
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6dc781778b595be94c31395b2cb167f65145d91f
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7aad70cabd8f34cf11a9593fcd3f2ac3f5496943
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c349b4f2a603202fb8c363bd2774a22ac2fddf3
Added Affected

                  
                
              
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