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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-80716" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-28T06:53:14.286Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:26:34.951Z" 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-2026-80716" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80716.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80716" title: "ALSA: pcm: wake linked drain waiters on unlink" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: pcm: wake linked drain waiters on unlink\n\nsnd_pcm_drain() on a linked stream parks an on-stack wait entry on the\ndrained peer's runtime-\u003esleep, and after schedule_timeout() removes it\nonly if that peer is still found in the caller's group. If group\nmembership changes during the wait and the sleep ends by signal or\ntimeout (so autoremove_wake_function() does not run), finish_wait() is\nskipped and snd_pcm_drain() returns with the entry still queued on that\nstream's sleep list; a later wake_up() then walks a freed stack frame.\nThis is reachable by unlinking either the drained or the draining stream.\n\nUnlike the close path (snd_pcm_drop() -\u003e snd_pcm_post_stop()),\nsnd_pcm_unlink() never wakes the sleep queues. Wake every group member\nunder the group lock before the membership change, so a linked drainer is\nreleased and drops its entry while the streams are still grouped.\n\nThe window was opened when snd_pcm_link_rwsem stopped being held across\nthe wait and the removal became conditional on group membership (see\nFixes). The later switch to finish_wait() kept that conditional removal,\nso the signal/timeout case remained." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f57f3df03a8e6010e321fa0258d3e054713c3cb7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c172e4c53321ee6429955295ea133bc3597a3ca9"},{"version":"f57f3df03a8e6010e321fa0258d3e054713c3cb7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3035bb784cea3f338934f5042dd3f35225a51b2e"},{"version":"f57f3df03a8e6010e321fa0258d3e054713c3cb7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1c1b7e8e545ce65e40f65b55c432765e058ea98f"},{"version":"f57f3df03a8e6010e321fa0258d3e054713c3cb7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e8b784a3f4fba3ea9c4d05138ecfa784a069627f"},{"version":"f57f3df03a8e6010e321fa0258d3e054713c3cb7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e8315330e4ec09c0cac625515400e13d0ee22b81"},{"version":"f57f3df03a8e6010e321fa0258d3e054713c3cb7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2940cc3cf43c72126b74ee6376314c195382023a"},{"version":"f57f3df03a8e6010e321fa0258d3e054713c3cb7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"db09bc4ab19ce548a078240d2374792523953500"},{"version":"f57f3df03a8e6010e321fa0258d3e054713c3cb7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f495b6c4c8594122918552c9be2b51eb71647cd9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.1"},{"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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