Bug 2516575 (CVE-2026-72262) - CVE-2026-72262 kernel: ASoC: SOF: ipc3-control: Fix heap overflow in bytes_ext put/get
Summary: CVE-2026-72262 kernel: ASoC: SOF: ipc3-control: Fix heap overflow in bytes_ex...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-72262
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-15 06:19 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-14 23:23 UTC (History)
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2026:83156 0 None None None 2026-10-14 21:22:58 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2026:83157 0 None None None 2026-10-14 21:10:05 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2026:83159 0 None None None 2026-10-14 21:11:39 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2026:83207 0 None None None 2026-10-14 23:23:08 UTC

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.

Comment 7 Jon Orris 2026-10-14 21:10:04 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2026:83157 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:83157

Comment 8 Jon Orris 2026-10-14 21:11:38 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2026:83159 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:83159

Comment 9 Jon Orris 2026-10-14 21:22:57 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2026:83156 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:83156

Comment 10 Jon Orris 2026-10-14 23:23:07 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Via RHSA-2026:83207 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:83207


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