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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-80973" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:42:35.751Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:45:57.889Z" 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-2026-80973" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80973.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80973" title: "ALSA: 6fire: bound the MIDI event length from the device" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: 6fire: bound the MIDI event length from the device\n\nusb6fire_comm_receiver_handler() forwards a MIDI event using a length\nbyte the device supplies, with no bound and no check that the transfer\ndelivered that many bytes:\n\n\tif (!urb-\u003estatus) {\n\t\tif (rt-\u003ereceiver_buffer[0] == 0x10) /* midi in event */\n\t\t\tif (midi_rt)\n\t\t\t\tmidi_rt-\u003ein_received(midi_rt,\n\t\t\t\t\t\trt-\u003ereceiver_buffer + 2,\n\t\t\t\t\t\trt-\u003ereceiver_buffer[1]);\n\t}\n\nreceiver_buffer is a 64-byte kzalloc() buffer (COMM_RECEIVER_BUFSIZE), so\nonly 62 bytes follow the two-byte header. receiver_buffer[1] is a u8 the\ndevice chooses, so a device that answers with 0x10 and a length of 0xFF\nmakes snd_rawmidi_receive() read 255 bytes starting two bytes into a\n64-byte object. The bytes past the buffer are handed to userspace\nthrough the rawmidi read path.\n\nurb-\u003eactual_length is not consulted either, so a short transfer leaves\nboth the type byte and the length byte at their previous values and the\nhandler acts on stale data.\n\nThe receiver URB is submitted from usb6fire_comm_init() at probe, so the\nread happens on plug with no user action; forwarding to userspace also\nneeds a MIDI input substream open, since usb6fire_midi_in_received()\nonly calls snd_rawmidi_receive() when rt-\u003ein is set.\n\nKASAN on 7.2.0-rc5 (arm64), single packet from an emulated device:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in snd_rawmidi_receive\n Read of size 255 at addr ffff000009f64682 by task bash/183\n __asan_memcpy\n snd_rawmidi_receive\n usb6fire_midi_in_received [snd_usb_6fire]\n usb6fire_comm_receiver_handler [snd_usb_6fire]\n Allocated by task 11:\n usb6fire_comm_init [snd_usb_6fire]\n usb6fire_chip_probe [snd_usb_6fire]\n The buggy address is located 2 bytes inside of\n allocated 64-byte region [ffff000009f64680, ffff000009f646c0)\n\nReject the event when the length exceeds the bytes that follow the\nheader, and require the transfer to have delivered the header plus that\nmany bytes. The receiver URB is submitted with a 64-byte\ntransfer_buffer_length, so a genuine device cannot deliver an event\nlonger than those 62 bytes and nothing valid is dropped.\n\nDiscovered by XBOW, triaged by Baul Lee \u003cbaul.lee@xbow.com\u003e" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c6d43ba816d1cf1d125bfbfc938f2a28a87facf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c9204bc2ed2010e2469dbe5fce598878a37efd04"},{"version":"c6d43ba816d1cf1d125bfbfc938f2a28a87facf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2c590d5e1b1595d5c8fa0b72d2897423ce9985ca"},{"version":"c6d43ba816d1cf1d125bfbfc938f2a28a87facf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0c8a3c773823cf12abd39c480aed70e25c384630"},{"version":"c6d43ba816d1cf1d125bfbfc938f2a28a87facf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"00e84a9ff2d43953ae261995cae94d46f4c307a6"},{"version":"c6d43ba816d1cf1d125bfbfc938f2a28a87facf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"466e911bbbbb779bb06337e35a286e5ca7af16b3"},{"version":"c6d43ba816d1cf1d125bfbfc938f2a28a87facf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2a6f6fba3bd31d2e8c957fefa29156e35e5e75d5"},{"version":"c6d43ba816d1cf1d125bfbfc938f2a28a87facf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"34816e2cfeabafb8eccf54687186ce25699e8363"},{"version":"c6d43ba816d1cf1d125bfbfc938f2a28a87facf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a478893b59e36cfe7d77a76b352f2db55502e879"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.39","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.39"},{"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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