# 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-2026-46146"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-28T09:36:02.794Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:20:47.967Z"
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-2026-46146"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46146.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46146"
title: "ALSA: usb-audio: Avoid potential endless loop in convert_chmap_v3()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: usb-audio: Avoid potential endless loop in convert_chmap_v3()\n\nThe convert_chmap_v3() has a loop with its increment size of\ncs_desc-\u003ewLength, but we forgot to validate cs_desc-\u003ewLength itself,\nwhich may lead to potential endless loop by a malformed descriptor.\n\nAdd a proper size check to abort the loop for plugging the hole."
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