# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64479"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:51:41.006Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:56:25.868Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-64479"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64479.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64479"
title: "ALSA: seq: Fix uninitialised heap leak in snd_seq_event_dup()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: seq: Fix uninitialised heap leak in snd_seq_event_dup()\n\nsnd_seq_event_dup() copies an incoming event into a pool cell and, in\nthe UMP-enabled build, clears the trailing cell-\u003eump.raw.extra word that\nthe memcpy() did not cover.  The guard deciding whether to clear it\ncompares the copied size against sizeof(cell-\u003eevent):\n\n\tmemcpy(&cell-\u003eump, event, size);\n\tif (size \u003c sizeof(cell-\u003eevent))\n\t\tcell-\u003eump.raw.extra = 0;\n\nFor a legacy (non-UMP) event, size == sizeof(struct snd_seq_event) ==\nsizeof(cell-\u003eevent), so the condition is false and the extra word keeps\nstale data.  The cell pool is allocated with kvmalloc() (not zeroed) and\ncells are reused via a free list, so that word holds uninitialised heap\nor leftover event data.\n\nWhen such a cell is delivered to a UMP client (client-\u003emidi_version \u003e 0)\nthat set SNDRV_SEQ_FILTER_NO_CONVERT -- so the legacy event reaches it\nunconverted -- snd_seq_read() reads it out as the larger struct\nsnd_seq_ump_event and copies the stale word to user space, a 4-byte\nkernel heap infoleak to an unprivileged /dev/snd/seq client.\n\nCompare against sizeof(cell-\u003eump) instead, so the trailing word is zeroed\nfor every event shorter than the UMP cell."
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