# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40275"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-06T21:50:57.914Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:46:11.980Z"
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-2025-40275"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40275.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40275"
title: "ALSA: usb-audio: Fix NULL pointer dereference in snd_usb_mixer_controls_badd"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: usb-audio: Fix NULL pointer dereference in snd_usb_mixer_controls_badd\n\nIn snd_usb_create_streams(), for UAC version 3 devices, the Interface\nAssociation Descriptor (IAD) is retrieved via usb_ifnum_to_if(). If this\ncall fails, a fallback routine attempts to obtain the IAD from the next\ninterface and sets a BADD profile. However, snd_usb_mixer_controls_badd()\nassumes that the IAD retrieved from usb_ifnum_to_if() is always valid,\nwithout performing a NULL check. This can lead to a NULL pointer\ndereference when usb_ifnum_to_if() fails to find the interface descriptor.\n\nThis patch adds a NULL pointer check after calling usb_ifnum_to_if() in\nsnd_usb_mixer_controls_badd() to prevent the dereference.\n\nThis issue was discovered by syzkaller, which triggered the bug by sending\na crafted USB device descriptor."
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