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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-80628" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-28T06:48:45.377Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:46:38.235Z" 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-2026-80628" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80628.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80628" title: "ALSA: seq: oss: Serialize readq reset state with q-\u003elock" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: seq: oss: Serialize readq reset state with q-\u003elock\n\nsnd_seq_oss_readq_clear() resets qlen, head, and tail without\nq-\u003elock even though the normal reader and producer paths serialize the\nsame ring state under that spinlock. A reset can therefore race\nsnd_seq_oss_readq_free() or snd_seq_oss_readq_put_event() and leave\nstale records in the queue, drop freshly queued ones, or report the\nwrong readiness after wakeup. KCSAN reports a data race between\nsnd_seq_oss_readq_clear() and snd_seq_oss_readq_free().\n\nTake q-\u003elock while clearing the ring and resetting input_time. Factor\nthe enqueue logic into a caller-locked helper so\nsnd_seq_oss_readq_put_timestamp() updates its suppression state under\nthe same lock instead of racing the reset path.\n\nThe buggy scenario involves two paths, with each column showing the\norder within that path:\n\nreset path: locked readq updater:\n1. snd_seq_oss_reset() or 1. A reader or callback producer\n release reaches takes q-\u003elock on the same queue.\n snd_seq_oss_readq_clear().\n2. snd_seq_oss_readq_clear() 2. The updater tests or modifies\n resets qlen, head, tail, qlen, head, and tail.\n and input_time.\n3. snd_seq_oss_readq_clear() 3. The updater completes its\n wakes sleepers on read-modify-write sequence.\n q-\u003emidi_sleep.\n4. Without q-\u003elock, the reset 4. The resulting ring state drives\n can overlap the locked later reads and readiness.\n update.\n\nKCSAN reports:\n\nBUG: KCSAN: data-race in snd_seq_oss_readq_clear /\nsnd_seq_oss_readq_free\n\nwrite to 0xffff8881069fe608 of 4 bytes by task 120516 on cpu 0:\n snd_seq_oss_readq_free+0x6c/0x80\n snd_seq_oss_read+0xcb/0x250\n odev_read+0x38/0x60\n vfs_read+0xff/0x600\n ksys_read+0xb4/0x140\n __x64_sys_read+0x46/0x60\n do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x2f0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nread to 0xffff8881069fe608 of 4 bytes by task 120517 on cpu 1:\n snd_seq_oss_readq_clear+0x1f/0x90\n snd_seq_oss_reset+0xa7/0xf0\n snd_seq_oss_ioctl+0x6f6/0x7e0\n odev_ioctl+0x56/0xc0\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0xd1/0x120\n do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x2f0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nvalue changed: 0x00000001 -\u003e 0x00000000" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bf862fdee4831fe1dbde20891db4b29b8f9972f7"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"af74390983cae3e5e551a533d6fcfc9b8c1a8b9e"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"287d506d4e0865918cec82bb1361f283a08c979b"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"43e10709b1ba288bcbabb9b9cb6e518b2a5d8506"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"49ce92d207820f588b0406add82f053decfbe5d9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","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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