Bug 2536401 (CVE-2026-90060)

Summary:	CVE-2026-90060 kernel: ALSA: control: Don't add invalid kcontrols to LED layer
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ALSA control module. A local user could create a write-only kcontrol element without a get callback. This could lead to a null pointer dereference in the LED layer, causing a system crash and resulting in a denial of service.	Story Points:	---
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-17 17:44:16 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ALSA: control: Don't add invalid kcontrols to LED layer

The kcontrol LED state layer tries to track the all associated
kcontrol elements with naive assumptions that they are readable.
But one can create a write-only element that has no get callback (even
a user element can do it), and this may lead to a NULL dereference at
the call chain of snd_ctl_led_notify(), as found by syzkaller.

For avoiding the Oops, add a sanity check of the kcontrol's info and
get callbacks, and just skip the invalid kcontrols before assigning
the kctl to the LED layer.

Comment 1 Keith Grant 2026-09-22 15:39:06 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2026/CVE-2026-90060.mbox