# 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-2026-46004"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-27T12:56:01.851Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-14T17:47:26.278Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-46004"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46004.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46004"
title: "ALSA: caiaq: Handle probe errors properly"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: caiaq: Handle probe errors properly\n\nThe probe procedure of setup_card() in caiaq driver doesn't treat the\nerror cases gracefully, e.g. the error from snd_card_register() calls\nsnd_card_free() but continues.  This would lead to a UAF for the\nfurther calls like snd_usb_caiaq_control_init(), as Berk suggested in\nanother patch in the link below.\n\nHowever, the problem is not only that; in general, this function drops\nthe all error handlings (as it's a void function) although its caller\ncan propagate an error to snd_probe(), which eventually calls\nsnd_card_free() as a proper error path.  That said, we should treat\neach error case in setup_card(), and just return the error code\npromptly, which is then handled later as a fatal error in snd_probe().\n\nThis patch achieves it by changing the setup_card() to return an error\ncode.  Also, the superfluous snd_card_free() call is removed, too.\n\nNote that card-\u003eprivate_free can be set still safely at returning an\nerror.  All called functions in card_free() have checks of the\nunassigned resources or NULL checks."
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