# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38249"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-09T10:42:29.704Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:24:08.873Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38249"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38249.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38249"
title: "ALSA: usb-audio: Fix out-of-bounds read in snd_usb_get_audioformat_uac3()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: usb-audio: Fix out-of-bounds read in snd_usb_get_audioformat_uac3()\n\nIn snd_usb_get_audioformat_uac3(), the length value returned from\nsnd_usb_ctl_msg() is used directly for memory allocation without\nvalidation. This length is controlled by the USB device.\n\nThe allocated buffer is cast to a uac3_cluster_header_descriptor\nand its fields are accessed without verifying that the buffer\nis large enough. If the device returns a smaller than expected\nlength, this leads to an out-of-bounds read.\n\nAdd a length check to ensure the buffer is large enough for\nuac3_cluster_header_descriptor."
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