# 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-2026-72300"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:55:19.786Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:12:03.913Z"
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-2026-72300"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72300.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72300"
title: "ASoC: SOF: topology: validate vendor array size before parsing"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nASoC: SOF: topology: validate vendor array size before parsing\n\nsof_parse_token_sets() reads array-\u003esize while iterating over topology\nprivate data. The loop condition only checks that some data remains, so a\nmalformed topology with a truncated trailing vendor array can make the\nparser read the size field before a full vendor-array header is available.\n\nValidate that the remaining private data contains a complete\nsnd_soc_tplg_vendor_array header before reading array-\u003esize.\n\nThe declared array size check also needs to remain signed. asize is an int,\nbut sizeof(*array) has type size_t, so comparing them directly promotes\nnegative asize values to unsigned and lets them pass the check,\nas reported in the stable review thread reference below.\n\nCast sizeof(*array) to int when validating the declared array size. This\nrejects negative, zero and otherwise too-small sizes before the parser\ndispatches to the tuple-specific code."
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