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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53192"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-25T08:39:03.696Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:57:27.788Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
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-2026-53192"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53192.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53192"
title: "ALSA: timer: Fix UAF at snd_timer_user_params()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: timer: Fix UAF at snd_timer_user_params()\n\nAt releasing a timer object, e.g. when a userspace timer\n(CONFIG_SND_UTIMER) gets closed and snd_timer_free() is called, it\ntries to detach the timer instances and release the resources.\nHowever, it's still possible that other in-flight tasks are holding\nthe timer instance where the to-be-deleted timer object is associated,\nand this may lead to racy accesses.\n\nFortunately, most of ioctls dealing with the timer instance list\nalready have the protection with register_mutex, and this also avoids\nsuch races.  But, SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_PARAMS isn't protected, hence the\nconcurrent ioctl may lead to use-after-free.\n\nThis patch just adds the guard with register_mutex to protect\nsnd_timer_user_params() for covering the code path as a quick\nworkaround.  It's no hot-path but rather a rarely issued ioctl, so the\nperformance penalty doesn't matter."
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