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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-31778" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-05-01T14:15:05.804Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:15:37.687Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z" 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-2026-31778" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31778.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31778" title: "ALSA: caiaq: fix stack out-of-bounds read in init_card" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: caiaq: fix stack out-of-bounds read in init_card\n\nThe loop creates a whitespace-stripped copy of the card shortname\nwhere `len \u003c sizeof(card-\u003eid)` is used for the bounds check. Since\nsizeof(card-\u003eid) is 16 and the local id buffer is also 16 bytes,\nwriting 16 non-space characters fills the entire buffer,\noverwriting the terminating nullbyte.\n\nWhen this non-null-terminated string is later passed to\nsnd_card_set_id() -\u003e copy_valid_id_string(), the function scans\nforward with `while (*nid && ...)` and reads past the end of the\nstack buffer, reading the contents of the stack.\n\nA USB device with a product name containing many non-ASCII, non-space\ncharacters (e.g. multibyte UTF-8) will reliably trigger this as follows:\n\n BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in copy_valid_id_string\n sound/core/init.c:696 [inline]\n BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in snd_card_set_id_no_lock+0x698/0x74c\n sound/core/init.c:718\n\nThe off-by-one has been present since commit bafeee5b1f8d (\"ALSA:\nsnd_usb_caiaq: give better shortname\") from June 2009 (v2.6.31-rc1),\nwhich first introduced this whitespace-stripping loop. The original\ncode never accounted for the null terminator when bounding the copy.\n\nFix this by changing the loop bound to `sizeof(card-\u003eid) - 1`,\nensuring at least one byte remains as the null terminator." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"bafeee5b1f8d32cbf791c322b40a6fa91d8ccf7a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"02d9c5b0b5553a391448b6d655262bd829f90234"},{"version":"bafeee5b1f8d32cbf791c322b40a6fa91d8ccf7a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3f7f8bae0d52cbd07ab04b76b6aac89ef98ee9f6"},{"version":"bafeee5b1f8d32cbf791c322b40a6fa91d8ccf7a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"66194c2575a4f567577ae70b1d7561163ce791a6"},{"version":"bafeee5b1f8d32cbf791c322b40a6fa91d8ccf7a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a82c1bce2d1299dd3c686a8fe48cf75b79a403c7"},{"version":"bafeee5b1f8d32cbf791c322b40a6fa91d8ccf7a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3178b62e2e31bab39f63d4c8e54bf4ee0a425627"},{"version":"bafeee5b1f8d32cbf791c322b40a6fa91d8ccf7a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3afa2e67f3523a980a2f90fd63c22322ac2b9ce0"},{"version":"bafeee5b1f8d32cbf791c322b40a6fa91d8ccf7a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7594a6464873d90fd229e5b94cdd3b92c9feabed"},{"version":"bafeee5b1f8d32cbf791c322b40a6fa91d8ccf7a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"45424e871abf2a152e247a9cff78359f18dd95c0"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.31","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.31"},{"version":"5.10.253","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.203","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.168","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.134","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.81","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.22","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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