Bug 2546343 (CVE-2026-98316) - CVE-2026-98316 kernel: kernel: Denial of Service via race condition in ALSA bcd2000 driver
Summary: CVE-2026-98316 kernel: kernel: Denial of Service via race condition in ALSA b...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98316
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-10-06 09:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-31 22:42 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-06 09:01:30 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ALSA: bcd2000: Fix race between rawmidi and disconnect

Although we tried to fix the potential UAF issues at USB disconnect on
bcd2000 driver, there is still an overlooked case -- namely, when a
rawmidi trigger callback has been already running at USB disconnect
handling, the in-flight function (e.g. bcd2000_midi_send()) could
still access the URB, because the previous URB NULL-check & clearance
was considered only for the URB complete callbacks, but not about the
parallel rawmidi operations.

For addressing the race, this patch introduced a new spinlock that
covers each rawmidi operation as well as the rawmidi handling in the
complete callback.  The URB is cleared with the lock, so it guarantees
that the pending rawmidi task already finished or a NULL check is
effective.


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