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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-80971" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:42:34.441Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:45:55.974Z" 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-2026-80971" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80971.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80971" title: "ALSA: bcd2000: clear the URB pointers on disconnect" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: bcd2000: clear the URB pointers on disconnect\n\nbcd2000_free_usb_related_resources() frees both URBs and leaves the\npointers behind:\n\n\tusb_kill_urb(bcd2k-\u003emidi_out_urb);\n\tusb_kill_urb(bcd2k-\u003emidi_in_urb);\n\n\tusb_free_urb(bcd2k-\u003emidi_out_urb);\n\tusb_free_urb(bcd2k-\u003emidi_in_urb);\n\nThe rawmidi device outlives that call. A substream that is still open\nwhen the device is unplugged reaches bcd2000_midi_send() from the\ntrigger path on close. That function writes to the freed URB and then\nhands it to the USB core:\n\n\tbcd2k-\u003emidi_out_urb-\u003etransfer_buffer_length = BUFSIZE;\n\t...\n\tret = usb_submit_urb(bcd2k-\u003emidi_out_urb, GFP_ATOMIC);\n\nusb_kill_urb() does not stop a later submission either, so a submit that\nraces the disconnect can requeue the URB after it has been reaped.\nmidi_in_urb is exposed the same way: bcd2000_input_complete() resubmits\nit from the completion handler.\n\nKASAN on 7.2.0-rc5 (arm64):\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in bcd2000_midi_send [snd_bcd2000]\n Write of size 4 at addr ffff00001827d388 by task bpoc/168\n __asan_store4\n bcd2000_midi_send [snd_bcd2000]\n bcd2000_midi_output_trigger [snd_bcd2000]\n snd_rawmidi_kernel_write1\n close_substream.part.0\n Freed by task 168:\n usb_free_urb\n bcd2000_disconnect [snd_bcd2000]\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in usb_submit_urb\n Read of size 8 at addr ffff00001827d3b8 by task bpoc/168\n\nClear both pointers after freeing and test them on the paths that can\nstill run. Poison the URBs before freeing them: usb_poison_urb() waits\nfor a running completion handler and rejects any later submission, so\nafter it returns the input path is quiesced and only the rawmidi trigger\npath can still reach bcd2000_midi_send(). No unpoison is needed; the\nURBs are freed on the next line.\n\nDiscovered by XBOW, triaged by Baul Lee \u003cbaul.lee@xbow.com\u003e" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b47a22290d581277be70e8a597824a4985d39e83","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9af08677aa57debaca5b57c8045c52a83d3dd376"},{"version":"b47a22290d581277be70e8a597824a4985d39e83","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5a77febac6faf6da40fbb4555f703eeb91b58130"},{"version":"b47a22290d581277be70e8a597824a4985d39e83","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3c00004f134fc819f9d9e202c6a64acde0a1f8d0"},{"version":"b47a22290d581277be70e8a597824a4985d39e83","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6c07aad8a7c9ef8ebc4d03a964b882123a349a2e"},{"version":"b47a22290d581277be70e8a597824a4985d39e83","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eb482a06791d6168beb8c78cc904ac5a5ed96a55"},{"version":"b47a22290d581277be70e8a597824a4985d39e83","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7df3194bdb7479cad9199889655a566a2c0c1d1b"},{"version":"b47a22290d581277be70e8a597824a4985d39e83","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b06ebc7fe25a6af4a9f6e4a3d4236a4178ad4b01"},{"version":"b47a22290d581277be70e8a597824a4985d39e83","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"459d3a64766f5ca2f1886daeaf24582831a5f5ab"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.16"},{"version":"5.10.270","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.221","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.109","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","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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