Bug 2516575 (CVE-2026-72262)

Summary: CVE-2026-72262 kernel: ASoC: SOF: ipc3-control: Fix heap overflow in bytes_ext put/get
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A flaw was found in the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) Sound Open Firmware (SOF) ipc3-control component of the Linux kernel. This vulnerability, a heap overflow, occurs due to incorrect bounds checks when handling user data lengths. An unprivileged local user can exploit this to write past allocated memory or read adjacent heap data, potentially leading to information disclosure or arbitrary code execution.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:19:44 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ASoC: SOF: ipc3-control: Fix heap overflow in bytes_ext put/get

The ipc_control_data buffer is allocated as kzalloc(max_size), where
max_size covers the entire struct sof_ipc_ctrl_data including its
flexible array payload. However, the bounds checks in bytes_ext_put
and _bytes_ext_get compared user data lengths against max_size
directly, ignoring that cdata->data sits at an offset of
sizeof(struct sof_ipc_ctrl_data) bytes into the allocation.

This allowed writing up to sizeof(struct sof_ipc_ctrl_data) bytes past
the end of the heap buffer from unprivileged userspace via the ALSA TLV
kcontrol interface, and similarly allowed over-reading adjacent heap
data on the get path.

Fix all bounds checks to subtract sizeof(*cdata) from max_size so they
reflect the actual space available at the cdata->data offset. Also fix
the error-path restore in bytes_ext_put which wrote to cdata->data
instead of cdata, causing the same overflow.