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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98006" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:23:32.334Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:12:11.824Z" 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-2026-98006" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98006.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98006" title: "ALSA: caiaq: Decoupling ep1_in_urb in caiaq dev" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: caiaq: Decoupling ep1_in_urb in caiaq dev\n\nThe epq_in_urb object belonging to the caiaq device is coupled within\nthe struct snd_usb_caiaqdev. After usb_submit_urb(epq_in_urb, GFP_KERNEL)\nexecutes successfully, epq_in_urb is successfully added to the urbp_list\nqueue of the dummy HCD driver (userspace specifies dummy_hcd as the HCD\nlayer driver for the caiaq USB device).\n\nWhen init_card() calls snd_usb_caiaq_send_command() which subsequently\nfails due to a timeout, and proceeds to call snd_card_free() to release\nthe card, the embedded ep1_in_urb object is also freed. When the dummy\nHCD driver detects that the URB has been unlinked, it returns the URB\n(by usb_hcd_giveback_urb()), which triggers [1].\n\nDecouple the ep1_in_urb object from the struct snd_usb_caiaqdev and switch\nto using a pointer instead. Separately allocate and manage the memory for\nep1_in_urb to prevent the release of the snd_card memory object from\ninterfering with it.\n\nmidi_out_urb has the same issue as ep1_in_urb and is handled in the same\nway.\n\n[1]\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in usb_free_urb+0x24/0x120 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:96\nWrite of size 4 at addr ffff88803cee1050 by task ktimers/1/29\nCall Trace:\n usb_free_urb+0x24/0x120 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:96\n dummy_timer+0xaac/0x4d50 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:2019\n __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2067 [inline]\n __hrtimer_run_queues+0x3eb/0xaf0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2124\n hrtimer_run_softirq+0x1e1/0x2e0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2141\n\nAllocated by task 36:\n snd_card_new+0x7b/0x110 sound/core/init.c:184\n create_card sound/usb/caiaq/device.c:429 [inline]\n snd_probe+0x236/0x1af0 sound/usb/caiaq/device.c:544\n\nFreed by task 36:\n snd_card_free_when_closed sound/core/init.c:630 [inline]\n snd_card_free+0x138/0x1d0 sound/core/init.c:662\n snd_probe+0x162b/0x1af0 sound/usb/caiaq/device.c:553" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"523f1dce37434a9a6623bf46e7893e2b4b10ac3c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a3bbd2845bc7188ae18548a591da1067af997e80"},{"version":"523f1dce37434a9a6623bf46e7893e2b4b10ac3c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fbfbad728da2e95d6560e43266895de5c8e844b3"},{"version":"523f1dce37434a9a6623bf46e7893e2b4b10ac3c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dbd3effcbdb85394d3c4bd5ee9df785a44303333"},{"version":"523f1dce37434a9a6623bf46e7893e2b4b10ac3c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"671037b282eb7fe477136bd0130ffd9029eb8668"},{"version":"523f1dce37434a9a6623bf46e7893e2b4b10ac3c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d6dd3c915b0d02457711d8fbaa60efc52144557f"},{"version":"523f1dce37434a9a6623bf46e7893e2b4b10ac3c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0c1b907d5db2f3508375776e5b78d69591aa5626"},{"version":"523f1dce37434a9a6623bf46e7893e2b4b10ac3c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d41e6c1533f09b27fc562260d41417490d2b6084"},{"version":"523f1dce37434a9a6623bf46e7893e2b4b10ac3c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"402a9d6aab7ac787ab075adeb562c3db8b8f564b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.22","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.22"},{"version":"5.10.271","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.7","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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