# 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-2026-64484"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:51:44.591Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:56:31.383Z"
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-2026-64484"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64484.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64484"
title: "ALSA: es1938: check snd_ctl_new1() return value"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: es1938: check snd_ctl_new1() return value\n\nsnd_ctl_new1() can return NULL when memory allocation fails.\nsnd_es1938_mixer() does not check the return value before dereferencing\nthe pointer, which can lead to a NULL pointer dereference.\n\nAdd a NULL check after snd_ctl_new1() and return -ENOMEM if it fails."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"96cad5bd7d0a176db3fdc06717a41271247336bd"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6c4efebaf73e217efbd08cdbda805758a7db3680"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"41759affbcfe3d51a32900da9547a1ffd744a85f"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7531a37720c2545a480fd0fa464978569bf9d6a2"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"af01c48e17a66fa038af210a5c49d6cdefd210bd"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9e53e99b6fa3cd82992d963cbff58dbbd1df8651"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1949163dee39e0e4a1468f37dd7302962f6af45a"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1edd1f02dddd20aeb6066ded41017615766ea42f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"5.10.261","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.212","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.96","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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