# 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-2026-72261"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:54:49.022Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:55:13.974Z"
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-2026-72261"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72261.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72261"
title: "ASoC: SOF: ipc3-control: Validate size in snd_sof_update_control"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nASoC: SOF: ipc3-control: Validate size in snd_sof_update_control\n\nIn snd_sof_update_control(), firmware-provided cdata-\u003enum_elems is\nchecked against local_cdata-\u003edata-\u003esize but never against the actual\nallocation size. If local_cdata-\u003edata-\u003esize was previously set to an\ninconsistent value, the memcpy could write past the allocated buffer.\n\nAdd a bounds check to ensure num_elems fits within the available space\nin the ipc_control_data allocation before copying."
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