# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98428"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-14T13:27:54.364Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:19:22.784Z"
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-2026-98428"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98428.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98428"
title: "ALSA: usb: 6fire: Avoid embedded URBs"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: usb: 6fire: Avoid embedded URBs\n\nThe USB 6fire driver uses URBs embedded in different structs for PCM,\nMIDI and communication, and this is basically a buggy implementation\nnowadays; since a URB is managed with a refcount, this may lead to a\nUAF when the URB is released asynchronously.\n\nFor addressing the problem, this patch converts those embedded URBs to\nones that are properly allocated via usb_alloc_urb().  The\npcm_urb.packets[] is gone, as it's allocated by usb_alloc_urb(), hence\nit's found in urb.iso_frame_desc[] instead.\n\nThe conversions are rather straightforward; each embedded struct urb\nis changed to a pointer, and its callers are updated accordingly.\nThe resource for those structs are released in the common destructor\nfunctions (usb6fire_comm_free(), etc), which are called at both the\ninit error path and the disconnect.\n\nNo functional changes, only compile-tested."
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