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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-74499" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-15T12:27:25.728Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:38:00.351Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z" 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-2026-74499" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74499.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74499" title: "ALSA: usb-audio: fix OOB write in snd_usbmidi_akai_output()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: usb-audio: fix OOB write in snd_usbmidi_akai_output()\n\nsnd_usbmidi_akai_output() computes its fill-loop bound\n\n\tbuf_end = ep-\u003emax_transfer - MAX_AKAI_SYSEX_LEN - 1;\n\nas a signed int, so a small device-advertised bulk-OUT max_transfer\nmakes buf_end negative. The loop guard then compares the u32\nurb-\u003etransfer_buffer_length against that negative int: the usual\narithmetic conversion turns buf_end into a large unsigned value, so the\nguard stays true and each iteration keeps appending SysEx framing and\npayload bytes past the end of the URB transfer buffer, which is only\nmax_transfer bytes long.\n\nA USB device that advertises a tiny bulk-OUT endpoint can therefore\ntrigger an attacker-length- and content-controlled heap out-of-bounds\nwrite when a process writes to the created /dev/snd/midiC*D* node.\n\nReturn early when there is no room for even one SysEx, so the loop is\nnever entered with a bound that would wrap. The loop is the last\nstatement of the function, so bailing out is equivalent to it not\nrunning.\n\nDiscovered by XBOW, triaged by Baul Lee \u003cbaul.lee@xbow.com\u003e" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4434ade8c9334a3ab975d8993de456f06841899e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"78dfdeb8d2065524ed5928d6470bf3d3244d1009"},{"version":"4434ade8c9334a3ab975d8993de456f06841899e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"00cc659a42ac4e94ec880fae2c9bf22fce69c2e8"},{"version":"4434ade8c9334a3ab975d8993de456f06841899e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ce949d66607cfb000b8d8d84f80f35a886e72683"},{"version":"4434ade8c9334a3ab975d8993de456f06841899e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"29a4c29943631301e85f5e9d10f25741bd78e7ba"},{"version":"4434ade8c9334a3ab975d8993de456f06841899e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9b22a5c8310b0d55d04f5f0159b913a2fb8b444f"},{"version":"4434ade8c9334a3ab975d8993de456f06841899e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b5305a0d0bb8e90a6fc9f88270d5f6c9b8c40081"},{"version":"4434ade8c9334a3ab975d8993de456f06841899e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2b7a0f330dd90dd1a7657cec0db019ee1efa4372"},{"version":"4434ade8c9334a3ab975d8993de456f06841899e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0970274613fb463d376211450cab066d34ebfe6a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.35","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.35"},{"version":"5.10.265","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.216","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.183","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.151","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.103","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.44","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","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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