Bug 2541304 (CVE-2026-98006)

Summary:	CVE-2026-98006 kernel: ALSA: caiaq: Decoupling ep1_in_urb in caiaq dev
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 (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) caiaq USB audio driver. During device initialization failures, the driver prematurely releases memory structures used for USB communication while they remain queued in the host controller. An attacker connecting a crafted USB device or a local user could exploit this use-after-free condition to trigger a kernel crash resulting in Denial of Service (DoS), or potentially execute arbitrary code.	Story Points:	---
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-25 11:17:19 UTC

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

ALSA: caiaq: Decoupling ep1_in_urb in caiaq dev

The epq_in_urb object belonging to the caiaq device is coupled within
the struct snd_usb_caiaqdev. After usb_submit_urb(epq_in_urb, GFP_KERNEL)
executes successfully, epq_in_urb is successfully added to the urbp_list
queue of the dummy HCD driver (userspace specifies dummy_hcd as the HCD
layer driver for the caiaq USB device).

When init_card() calls snd_usb_caiaq_send_command() which subsequently
fails due to a timeout, and proceeds to call snd_card_free() to release
the card, the embedded ep1_in_urb object is also freed. When the dummy
HCD driver detects that the URB has been unlinked, it returns the URB
(by usb_hcd_giveback_urb()), which triggers [1].

Decouple the ep1_in_urb object from the struct snd_usb_caiaqdev and switch
to using a pointer instead. Separately allocate and manage the memory for
ep1_in_urb to prevent the release of the snd_card memory object from
interfering with it.

midi_out_urb has the same issue as ep1_in_urb and is handled in the same
way.

[1]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in usb_free_urb+0x24/0x120 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:96
Write of size 4 at addr ffff88803cee1050 by task ktimers/1/29
Call Trace:
 usb_free_urb+0x24/0x120 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:96
 dummy_timer+0xaac/0x4d50 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:2019
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2067 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x3eb/0xaf0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2124
 hrtimer_run_softirq+0x1e1/0x2e0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2141

Allocated by task 36:
 snd_card_new+0x7b/0x110 sound/core/init.c:184
 create_card sound/usb/caiaq/device.c:429 [inline]
 snd_probe+0x236/0x1af0 sound/usb/caiaq/device.c:544

Freed by task 36:
 snd_card_free_when_closed sound/core/init.c:630 [inline]
 snd_card_free+0x138/0x1d0 sound/core/init.c:662
 snd_probe+0x162b/0x1af0 sound/usb/caiaq/device.c:553

Comment 1 Keith Grant 2026-09-28 19:01:07 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2026/CVE-2026-98006.mbox