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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98265" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:45:28.438Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:54:54.873Z" 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-2026-98265" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98265.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98265" title: "ALSA: usb-audio: Clamp implicit feedback packet count to URB capacity" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: usb-audio: Clamp implicit feedback packet count to URB capacity\n\ndata_ep_set_params() allocates each data URB for exactly u-\u003epackets\nisochronous frames, so urb-\u003eiso_frame_desc[] has u-\u003epackets slots and\nctx-\u003epackets is the driver's only record of that limit. For an implicit\nfeedback sink, snd_usb_queue_pending_output_urbs() overwrites it with the\nsync source's packet count, which is calculated independently from the\ncapture endpoint's parameters. When that count is larger,\nprepare_playback_urb() and prepare_silent_urb() can write\niso_frame_desc[] past the allocation; their existing bounds limit payload\nbytes, not the descriptor index.\n\nThe reproducer uses a high-speed UAC2 device declaring bInterval 1 for\nimplicit feedback capture (8 packets) and bInterval 4 for playback\n(1 packet). On the first capture completion after the stream starts, it\naccesses seven descriptors spanning 112 bytes beyond the one-packet URB:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in prepare_playback_urb (sound/usb/pcm.c:1560)\n Write of size 4 at addr ffff88801e696ad0 by task vhci_rx/178\n prepare_playback_urb (sound/usb/pcm.c:1560)\n prepare_outbound_urb (sound/usb/endpoint.c:340)\n snd_usb_queue_pending_output_urbs (sound/usb/endpoint.c:501)\n snd_complete_urb (sound/usb/endpoint.c:1834)\n __usb_hcd_giveback_urb (drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1657)\n usb_hcd_giveback_urb (drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1741)\n vhci_rx_loop (drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_rx.c:107)\n kthread (kernel/kthread.c:436)\n The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88801e696a00\n which belongs to the cache kmalloc-256 of size 256\n The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of\n allocated 208-byte region [ffff88801e696a00, ffff88801e696ad0)\n\nRecord the allocated packet count per endpoint and clamp both the adopted\ncount and the packet-size copy to it. Fold the Format Type II delimiter\ninto urb_packs before the allocation loop so the recorded limit matches\nevery URB." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c26bde6301f20d9aafbfb7c2459a88c6a6ec178f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8b637ab10e40e01b452f4aff66dad335a9b89a16"},{"version":"32a1f64f8ff6e2c5391f5964baec697bce25b83c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ad279ba0dc1781229f5b52f58d38d56960400e06"},{"version":"e949fd266cfa1dcca7caa3faa698578c4ffd26d6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"79c55a7b5d71cf2a6bbd4bd7698e1b10b70f813a"},{"version":"cf044e44190234a41a788de1cdbb6c21f4a52e1e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ab77e3f453c5f2499c08d6e8e218501d25bab39e"},{"version":"cf044e44190234a41a788de1cdbb6c21f4a52e1e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"76a986c980bb502c7688d605ac7a67fd257a9a1b"},{"version":"df75696e70c88b22ed1d8c9d515993a858c58fd0","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3a74f6b46c01d9a816378cd83c327a59f61475ec","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"f6fbdf797e016fbf968dd54301026b182175985a","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.6.128","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.160"},{"version":"6.12.75","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.112"},{"version":"6.18.16","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18.54"},{"version":"5.15.202","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"6.1.165","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"},{"version":"6.19.6","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.20"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"7.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.0"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.54","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.8","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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