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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-53242" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-06-25T08:39:37.129Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:57:31.043Z" 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-2026-53242" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53242.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53242" title: "ALSA: PCM: Fix wait queue list corruption in snd_pcm_drain() on linked streams" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: PCM: Fix wait queue list corruption in snd_pcm_drain() on linked streams\n\nsnd_pcm_drain() uses init_waitqueue_entry which does not clear\nentry.prev/next, and add_wait_queue with a conditional\nremove_wait_queue that is skipped when to_check is no longer\nin the group after concurrent UNLINK. The orphaned wait entry\nremains on the unlinked substream sleep queue. On the next\ndrain iteration, add_wait_queue adds the entry to a new queue\nwhile still linked on the old one, corrupting both lists. A\nsubsequent wake_up dereferences NULL at the func pointer\n(mapped from the spinlock at offset 0 of the misinterpreted\nwait_queue_head_t), causing a kernel panic.\n\nReplace init_waitqueue_entry/add_wait_queue/conditional\nremove_wait_queue with init_wait_entry/prepare_to_wait/\nfinish_wait. init_wait_entry clears prev/next via\nINIT_LIST_HEAD on each iteration and sets\nautoremove_wake_function which auto-removes the entry on\nwake-up. finish_wait safely handles both the already-removed\nand still-queued cases." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9baee36e8c5443411c4629afabafaff8a46a23fd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cac5bf3500ee6422cf64e0df0b5daeecfed42917"},{"version":"f2cb2e0d27fb925c73a78f0ce7d6dbf68d3747c1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"06eca2235a3fd281dddf25b0a97772b25b5bb573"},{"version":"fc71f888994569f87d5bee20b1ac6c9c1e3a7a79","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d842f26a167e77a36f3ed333b9fa99d36ef99fe6"},{"version":"629cf09464cf98670996ea5c191dc9743e6f3f00","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d68b621bb5a48051932f1017a6e1bc9b18f854d0"},{"version":"ae8f8d30d334bad5b1b3cdb1eb8a0b771f55e432","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b053fcd8912f06c30f932f5b8ec41c72de474695"},{"version":"4a758e9a1f5ed722f83c4dd35f867fe811553bcb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cd98837db15f323463b8df07282ac723bd5c3fed"},{"version":"9b1dbd69ba6f8f8c69bc7b77c2ce3b9c6ed05ba6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7c71a9522555ff137a9ca36b15d759ca04d84788"},{"version":"9b1dbd69ba6f8f8c69bc7b77c2ce3b9c6ed05ba6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"88fe2e3658726cb21ff2dcf9770bf672f9b9d31b"},{"version":"c2f64e05a0587a83ec42dbd6b7a7ded79b2ff694","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.10.253","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.259"},{"version":"6.1.167","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.176"},{"version":"6.6.130","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.143"},{"version":"6.12.78","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.94"},{"version":"6.18.19","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18.36"},{"version":"6.19.9","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.20"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"7.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.0"},{"version":"5.10.259","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"6.1.176","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.143","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.94","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.36","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","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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