Bug 2559813 (CVE-2026-99068) - CVE-2026-99068 kernel: ALSA: ctxfi: Fix memory leakage when clearing DAO input mappers
Summary: CVE-2026-99068 kernel: ALSA: ctxfi: Fix memory leakage when clearing DAO inpu...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-99068
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-10-23 13:45 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-26 11:11 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-23 13:45:21 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ALSA: ctxfi: Fix memory leakage when clearing DAO input mappers

Commit e576e7843c0d ("ALSA: ctxfi: Simplify dao_clear_{left,right}_input() functions")
centralized the DAO input mapper clearing logic in
dao_clear_input(), but omitted the kfree() calls.

It removes the mapper entries from the list and sets their pointers
to NULL without freeing the allocated array. This leaks memory each
time dao_clear_input() is called.

Store the base pointer of the allocation before clearing the mapper
entries and free the array after removing entries from the list.


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