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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74503"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T12:27:28.208Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:05:50.728Z"
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-2026-74503"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74503.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74503"
title: "ALSA: timer: Clear SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_DEAD once the close completes"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: timer: Clear SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_DEAD once the close completes\n\nsnd_timer_close_locked() marks an instance with SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_DEAD\nand returns early when the flag is already set, but the flag is never\ncleared again.  A completed close ends in remove_slave_links(), which\nleaves timeri-\u003etimer NULL, so a second close is already harmless through\nthe timer == NULL path; the early return can only be reached by an\ninstance that was opened again in between.  For such an instance the\nclose unlinks nothing, so snd_timer_instance_free() frees an object that\nis still on timer-\u003eopen_list_head, still on snd_timer_master_list if it\nwas opened with a slave key, still owns any adopted slaves, and still\nholds its timer and module references.\n\nsnd_seq_timer_open() reopens an instance exactly like that: it retries\nits fallback open on the same object after a failure that has already\nrun snd_timer_close_locked() internally.  An unprivileged user with\naccess to /dev/snd/timer and /dev/snd/seq can force that failure, since\nsnd_timer_check_master() returns -EBUSY when a pending slave matches the\nnew master's (slave_class, slave_id) key and the target timer has\nreached max_instances, and SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_SELECT with dev_class =\nSNDRV_TIMER_CLASS_SLAVE keeps the caller-supplied dev_sclass, so a\nsequencer queue's key can be forged.  The freed instance is afterwards\ndereferenced by any further snd_timer_open() on that timer, by\nsnd_timer_check_slave(), and by /proc/asound/timers, which faults on the\nstale ti-\u003eowner pointer.\n\nThe flag only has to be visible while the close is in progress, which is\nall its other users need.  Clear it in remove_slave_links(), under the\nsame timer-\u003elock that sets it, once the instance is off every list."
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