CVE-2026-43437: ALSA: pcm: fix use-after-free on linked stream runtime in snd_pcm_drain()
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.
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.8
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- 0
- Affected Products
- 2
Fix available
- Linux / Linux< 9baee36e8c5443411c4629afabafaff8a46a23fd (from f2b3614cefb61ee6046a0aaee503ee37f227d310) · < fc71f888994569f87d5bee20b1ac6c9c1e3a7a79 (from f2b3614cefb61ee6046a0aaee503ee37f227d310) · < 629cf09464cf98670996ea5c191dc9743e6f3f00 (from f2b3614cefb61ee6046a0aaee503ee37f227d310) · < ae8f8d30d334bad5b1b3cdb1eb8a0b771f55e432 (from f2b3614cefb61ee6046a0aaee503ee37f227d310) · < 4a758e9a1f5ed722f83c4dd35f867fe811553bcb (from f2b3614cefb61ee6046a0aaee503ee37f227d310) · < c2f64e05a0587a83ec42dbd6b7a7ded79b2ff694 (from f2b3614cefb61ee6046a0aaee503ee37f227d310)
- Linux / Linux3.0Fixed in 0, 5.10.253, 6.1.167, 6.6.130, 6.12.78, 6.18.19, 6.19.9, 7.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H