# 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-2026-74500"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T12:27:26.359Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:20:38.636Z"
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-2026-74500"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74500.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74500"
title: "ALSA: usb-audio: fix stack info leak in RME Digiface status"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: usb-audio: fix stack info leak in RME Digiface status\n\nsnd_rme_digiface_read_status() reads a four-word status block from the\ndevice into an uninitialised on-stack __le32 buf[4] and, whenever the\nvendor control-IN transfer does not return a negative error, copies all\nfour words into the caller's status[].\n\nsnd_usb_ctl_msg() copies the full requested size back into the caller's\nbuffer regardless of how many bytes the data stage actually delivered:\n\n\tbuf = kmemdup(data, size, GFP_KERNEL);\n\terr = usb_control_msg(dev, pipe, request, requesttype,\n\t\t\t      value, index, buf, size, timeout);\n\tmemcpy(data, buf, size);\n\nusb_control_msg() returns the transferred length on a short control-IN,\nwhich is a non-negative value, and writes only that many bytes.  The\nremainder of the copy back is the kmemdup()ed image of the caller's\nbuffer, so a device answering with a short data stage leaves the\ntrailing words of buf[] holding leftover kernel stack.  The only guard\nin the caller is err \u003c 0, so those words are stored into status[].\n\nThey then reach user space: snd_rme_digiface_get_status_val() selects a\n16-bit halfword of status[] per the control's reg/mask, and the eight\nDigiface status controls together expose the whole 16-byte frame to an\nunprivileged reader of /dev/snd/controlC*.\n\nZero-initialise the buffer so a short read yields zeros instead of stack\nresidue.  This mirrors snd_rme_get_status1(), which already clears its\noutput word before the same kind of vendor read.\n\nDiscovered by XBOW, triaged by Baul Lee \u003cbaul.lee@xbow.com\u003e"
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