CVE-2026-43437High· 7.8▾ TwilightIn the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: pcm: fix use-after-free on linked stream runtime in snd_pcm_drain() In the drain loop, the local variable 'runtime' is reassigned to a linked stream's runtime (r…
▾ Twilight zone — High severity, or a signal on a lesser flaw
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: pcm: fix use-after-free on linked stream runtime in snd_pcm_drain()
In the drain loop, the local variable 'runtime' is reassigned to a linked stream's runtime (runtime = s->runtime at line 2157). After releasing the stream lock at line 2169, the code accesses runtime->no_period_wakeup, runtime->rate, and runtime->buffer_size (lines 2170-2178) — all referencing the linked stream's runtime without any lock or refcount protecting its lifetime.
A concurrent close() on the linked stream's fd triggers snd_pcm_release_substream() → snd_pcm_drop() → pcm_release_private() → snd_pcm_unlink() → snd_pcm_detach_substream() → kfree(runtime). No synchronization prevents kfree(runtime) from completing while the drain path dereferences the stale pointer.
Fix by caching the needed runtime fields (no_period_wakeup, rate, buffer_size) into local variables while still holding the stream lock, and using the cached values after the lock is released.
linux_kernel >= 3.0, < 5.10.253linux_kernel >= 5.11, < 6.1.167linux_kernel >= 6.2, < 6.6.130linux_kernel >= 6.7, < 6.12.78linux_kernel >= 6.13, < 6.18.19linux_kernel >= 6.19, < 6.19.9linux_kernel = 7.0Upgrade past the affected range:
linux_kernel 6.19.9Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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