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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98314" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:46:09.965Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:17:24.800Z" 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-2026-98314" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98314.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98314" title: "ALSA: pcm: set timer-\u003eprivate_data before registering the PCM timer" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: pcm: set timer-\u003eprivate_data before registering the PCM timer\n\nsnd_pcm_timer_init() calls snd_device_register() to link the new\nstruct snd_timer into the global timer list while it still carries\nhw.c_resolution = snd_pcm_timer_resolution (and hw.start/hw.stop),\nand only afterwards sets timer-\u003eprivate_data = substream.\n\nOnce the timer is on the list under register_mutex, a concurrent\nreader can already reach it through the same mutex and invoke these\ncallbacks. /proc/asound/timers does this via c_resolution(), and\nsnd_timer_open()+snd_timer_start() reach start()/stop() the same way.\nAll three dereference timer-\u003eprivate_data, which for this brief\nwindow is NULL, giving a NULL-pointer dereference:\n\n substream = timer-\u003eprivate_data;\n return substream-\u003eruntime ? ... // substream is NULL\n\nMove the private_data/private_free assignment before\nsnd_device_register() so the timer is never visible on the list\nwithout its private_data set. On the snd_device_register() failure\npath, private_free() (snd_pcm_timer_free()) can now run, but it only\ndoes substream-\u003etimer = NULL, which is already NULL at that point\nsince substream-\u003etimer is set to the new timer just once, after a\nsuccessful registration -- so the failure path stays safe." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"27f167e117eca310661fbcbacb352ea08face067"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"555d168bd98daa46daccc68c908201388c834293"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8c869d5cf5affb20994bdbb60e7d46d65c91b55f"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"686c7a6af1eea8d2a919303e4c6bbec3de79dbdc"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e1eee8f16628f8b6bcae0a366fd6a2dd65e71edd"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d63f5a9f8121fb43c798056d7dd34c58f47185d7"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0b349249d572633d7c8cdeb917623d1676a2b7c3"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1e713f9bb2ac583521f06b0eb4e22440b1e3d078"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"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":"6.12.112","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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