# 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-2026-93808"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-24T16:02:43.621Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-03T10:57:41.411Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-93808"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93808.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93808"
title: "ALSA: usb-audio: caiaq: validate EP1 reply lengths"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: usb-audio: caiaq: validate EP1 reply lengths\n\nusb_ep1_command_reply_dispatch() uses buf[0] as a command byte and then\nreads command-specific fixed items from the same URB buffer. Several\npaths use buf + 1, buf[1], buf[2], or buf + 3 without first proving that\nurb-\u003eactual_length contains those bytes.\n\nAdd per-command length checks, use a payload length derived from the\nbytes after the command byte for the control-state copy, and reject short\nanalog input payloads before the input helper reads fixed offsets from\nthe EP1 reply."
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