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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74504"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T12:27:28.829Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:20:43.047Z"
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-2026-74504"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74504.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74504"
title: "ALSA: seq: Fix division by zero in initialize_timer()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: seq: Fix division by zero in initialize_timer()\n\nA userspace-driven ALSA timer (SND_UTIMER) lets an unprivileged user set\nthe backing snd_timer's hardware resolution to an arbitrary 64-bit value\nvia SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_CREATE. snd_utimer_create() only rejects zero.\n\nWhen such a timer is bound to a sequencer queue, initialize_timer()\ncomputes the tick period as\n\n\ttmr-\u003eticks = 1000000000 / (r * freq);\n\nwhere r is that user-controlled resolution and freq is the sequencer\nupdate rate in Hz, clamped to MIN_FREQUENCY..MAX_FREQUENCY (10..6250).\nA resolution of 2^63 makes the 64-bit product r * freq wrap to zero for\nany even freq, including DEFAULT_FREQUENCY (1000), so the division faults\nwith a divide-by-zero.\n\nThe division runs under tmr-\u003elock with interrupts disabled, so the oops\nleaves the spinlock held and hangs the CPU. It is reachable by an\nunprivileged user with access to /dev/snd/timer and /dev/snd/seq.\n\n  Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI\n  CPU: 7 UID: 1000 PID: 456 Comm: alsa_seq_utimer Not tainted 7.2.0-rc4+\n  RIP: 0010:initialize_timer.constprop.0+0x20a/0x2d0\n   snd_seq_timer_start+0x15e/0x2b0\n   snd_seq_control_queue+0x56f/0xba0\n   snd_seq_write+0x3e0/0x730\n\nReject an overflowing product with check_mul_overflow() and fall back to\na single tick, which also avoids feeding a wrapped-but-nonzero divisor\n(e.g. 2^63 * 1000 mod 2^64 == 0, or other resolutions wrapping to a small\nvalue) into the period computation."
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