# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-90032"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:33:33.197Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:56:49.082Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-90032"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90032.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90032"
title: "media: usbtv: keep device alive while ALSA card exists"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: usbtv: keep device alive while ALSA card exists\n\nThe ALSA PCM callbacks store the driver state in pcm-\u003eprivate_data. An\nopen PCM file can outlive USB disconnect because usbtv_audio_free() uses\nsnd_card_free_when_closed(). The disconnect path can then drop the V4L2\ndevice reference and free struct usbtv before ALSA releases the substream,\nso a later close dereferences freed memory in snd_usbtv_pcm_close().\n\nTake a V4L2 device reference for the ALSA card and drop it from the card\nprivate_free callback. This keeps struct usbtv valid until ALSA has closed\nthe remaining files and freed the card."
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