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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98741" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:47:26.283Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:56:16.734Z" 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-2026-98741" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98741.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98741" title: "ALSA: ua101: reject mismatched capture/playback packet sizes" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: ua101: reject mismatched capture/playback packet sizes\n\ndetect_usb_format() cross-checks bSubframeSize, bBitResolution and\ntSamFreq between the capture and playback interfaces, but never relates\nthe two endpoints' wMaxPacketSize and bNrChannels. Each playback URB\ngets a buffer of ua-\u003eplayback.max_packet_bytes, while the number of\nbytes written into it is derived from the capture stream:\ncapture_urb_complete() computes frames from the received capture packet\nand capture.frame_bytes, and start_usb_playback() and playback_work()\nmultiply that by playback.frame_bytes.\n\nA device declaring a large capture wMaxPacketSize with few capture\nchannels and a small playback wMaxPacketSize with many playback channels\ntherefore memset()s and memcpy()s past the end of the playback buffer,\nin open() of the PCM node the driver registers during probe.\nusb_submit_urb() rejects the over-long iso_frame_desc[0].length with\n-EMSGSIZE, but only after the write.\n\nReject such descriptors at probe time. Genuine UA-101/UA-1000 hardware\ndeclares proportional packet sizes and is unaffected.\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in start_usb_playback (sound/usb/misc/ua101.c:586)\n Write of size 2048 at addr ffff8881098f3c00 by task exploit/5021\n Call Trace:\n __asan_memset (mm/kasan/shadow.c:84)\n start_usb_playback (sound/usb/misc/ua101.c:586)\n playback_pcm_open (sound/usb/misc/ua101.c:679)\n snd_pcm_open_substream (sound/core/pcm_native.c:2829)\n snd_pcm_open (sound/core/pcm_native.c:2865 sound/core/pcm_native.c:2932)\n snd_pcm_playback_open (sound/core/pcm_native.c:2891)\n snd_open (sound/core/sound.c:166)\n chrdev_open (fs/char_dev.c:411)\n do_dentry_open (fs/open.c:996)\n vfs_open (fs/open.c:1101)\n path_openat (fs/namei.c:4837 fs/namei.c:5000)\n do_file_open (fs/namei.c:5029)\n do_sys_openat2 (fs/open.c:1417)\n __x64_sys_openat (fs/open.c:1423 fs/open.c:1439 fs/open.c:1434)\n do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84)\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)\n\n The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8881098f3c00\n which belongs to the cache kmalloc-192 of size 192\n The buggy address is located 0 bytes inside of\n allocated 168-byte region [ffff8881098f3c00, ffff8881098f3ca8)" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"63978ab3e3e963db28093b53bb4598f2702e1ad7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ada5ded765f059a6e3036e69ca350449442af0fc"},{"version":"63978ab3e3e963db28093b53bb4598f2702e1ad7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fd3a7bf0d988b0878a1957df150edb35f81db87e"},{"version":"63978ab3e3e963db28093b53bb4598f2702e1ad7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eb0c7fda59cf650076f8ed5b949a6c8441aa3606"},{"version":"63978ab3e3e963db28093b53bb4598f2702e1ad7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4294fe57048594a9e158b61c967bb7f943cda477"},{"version":"63978ab3e3e963db28093b53bb4598f2702e1ad7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"86f86e6fdedc33c5b8d38b9208b350f8accf57ee"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.34","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.34"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.56","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.10","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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