Bug 2507277 (CVE-2026-64490) - CVE-2026-64490 kernel: ALSA: virtio: Validate control metadata from the device
Summary: CVE-2026-64490 kernel: ALSA: virtio: Validate control metadata from the device
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-64490
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-07-25 10:14 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-27 05:45 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-25 10:14:09 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ALSA: virtio: Validate control metadata from the device

virtio-snd control handling trusts the device-provided control type and
value count returned by the device.

That metadata is then used directly to index g_v2a_type_map[] in
virtsnd_kctl_info(), and to size loops and memcpy() operations in
virtsnd_kctl_get() and virtsnd_kctl_put() against fixed-size
virtio_snd_ctl_value and snd_ctl_elem_value arrays.

A buggy or malicious device can therefore trigger out-of-bounds access by
advertising an invalid control type or an oversized value count.

Validate control type and count once in virtsnd_kctl_parse_cfg(), before
querying enumerated items or exposing the control to ALSA.


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