CVE-2026-43459: ASoC: soc-core: flush delayed work before removing DAIs and widgets
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: soc-core: flush delayed work before removing DAIs and widgets When a sound card is unbound while a PCM stream is open, a use-after-free can occur in snd_soc_dapm_stream_event(), called from the close_delayed_work workqueue handler. During unbind, snd_soc_unbind_card() flushes delayed work and then calls soc_cleanup_card_resources(). Inside cleanup, snd_card_disconnect_sync() releases all PCM file descriptors, and the resulting PCM close path can call snd_soc_dapm_stream_stop() which schedules new delayed work with a pmdown_time timer delay. Since this happens after the flush in snd_soc_unbind_card(), the new work is not caught. soc_remove_link_components() then frees DAPM widgets before this work fires, leading to the use-after-free. The existing flush in soc_free_pcm_runtime() also cannot help as it runs after soc_remove_link_components() has already freed the widgets. Add a flush in soc_cleanup_card_resources() after snd_card_disconnect_sync() (after which no new PCM closes can schedule further delayed work) and before soc_remove_link_dais() and soc_remove_link_components() (which tear down the structures the delayed work accesses).
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.3
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- 0
- Affected Products
- 2
Fix available
- Linux / Linux< bf80a89da97285d9b877e0c6995e870d46b8025c (from e894efef9ac7c10b7727798dcc711cccf07569f9) · < 3887e514978d28216246360b46a9cb534969eb5a (from e894efef9ac7c10b7727798dcc711cccf07569f9) · < 231568afbc0cd25b8fb2a94ebf9738eabe1cf007 (from e894efef9ac7c10b7727798dcc711cccf07569f9) · < 317a9298c54bb00319da73e5a7179f00e67fcbdf (from e894efef9ac7c10b7727798dcc711cccf07569f9) · < eab71e11ce2447c1e01809cbc11eab4234cf8dc8 (from e894efef9ac7c10b7727798dcc711cccf07569f9) · < 7d33e6140945482a07f8089ee86e13e02553ffdb (from e894efef9ac7c10b7727798dcc711cccf07569f9)
- Linux / Linux4.20Fixed in 0, 5.10.253, 5.15.203, 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:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H