# 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-2026-90220"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:07:31.423Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:50:31.238Z"
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-2026-90220"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90220.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90220"
title: "ALSA: seq: Don't leak the extension cell pointer in the bounce payload"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: seq: Don't leak the extension cell pointer in the bounce payload\n\nThe bounce_error_event() embeds the failed event in the bounce payload\nby pointing data.ext.ptr at it.  When that event is a queued\nvariable-length event, its own data.ext.ptr holds the address of its\nfirst extension cell, put there by snd_seq_event_dup().  The payload\ngoes out verbatim through snd_seq_expand_var_event(), so the address\nreaches userspace.\n\nThat is the same address commit 705dd6dcbc0e (\"ALSA: seq: Clear\nvariable event pointer on read\") removed from the event header.  The\nread path still clears it there, just above the call that expands the\npayload.\n\nEmbed a sanitised copy instead, treated exactly as snd_seq_read()\ntreats the header.  A stack copy is enough because delivery is\nsynchronous and snd_seq_event_dup() copies before returning.\n\nAn unprivileged client reaches this by setting SNDRV_SEQ_FILTER_BOUNCE,\nqueueing a variable-length event to a port that does not exist and\nreading the bounce back.  Eight bytes on 64-bit, from its own pool."
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