Bug 2546423 (CVE-2026-98308)

Summary: CVE-2026-98308 kernel: ALSA: hda: trace PCM open only after assigning a stream
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: 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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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) High Definition Audio (HDA) subsystem. A local user can cause a denial of service (DoS) by attempting to open audio streams when hardware streams are exhausted. Because the controller driver invokes an event trace before verifying whether a stream was successfully allocated, it accesses an unassigned stream pointer, leading to a null pointer dereference and a system crash.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-06 09:18:44 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ALSA: hda: trace PCM open only after assigning a stream

Stream assignment can fail when hardware streams are exhausted.
Move the tracepoint after the NULL check because its payload accesses
the assigned stream tag.

Detected by static analysis and reviewed with AI-assisted source auditing.