Linux Kernel ALSA line6 Driver Buffer Overflow in playback URB
CVE-2026-98836 Published on October 18, 2026
ALSA: line6: reject oversized playback packets
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: line6: reject oversized playback packets
Each playback URB is handed a slice of out.buffer that is exactly
LINE6_ISO_PACKETS * max_packet_size_out bytes, sized from the OUT
endpoint, but the number of bytes written into that slice is never
compared against it.
submit_audio_out_urb() takes the frame count from prev_fsize, which
audio_in_callback() derived from the *IN* endpoint's received packet
length, and rescales it with the playback frame size; when prev_fsize is
still zero it synthesizes a length from the sample rate instead. On a
device declaring a large IN wMaxPacketSize and a small OUT
wMaxPacketSize, the resulting memcpy(), or the memset() when the
playback stream is idle, runs past its slice and, as the reproducer
below shows, beyond the allocation.
usb_submit_urb() is not a backstop. max_packet_size_out comes from
usb_maxpacket(), which returns only the low 11 bits of wMaxPacketSize,
while USB core validates a high-speed isochronous length against that
base scaled by usb_endpoint_maxp_mult(). A length of up to three times
the allocated slice is therefore accepted, and even a rejected URB is
only rejected after the write.
Reject a packet that does not fit the slice the driver allocated for it.
Clamping it instead would silently shorten the capture-derived rate
feedback and desynchronize the two streams.
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in submit_audio_out_urb (sound/usb/line6/playback.c:229)
Write of size 1024 at addr ffff888100bbd400 by task kworker/1:2/5002
Workqueue: events line6_startup_work
Call Trace:
__asan_memcpy (mm/kasan/shadow.c:106)
submit_audio_out_urb (sound/usb/line6/playback.c:229)
line6_submit_audio_out_all_urbs (sound/usb/line6/playback.c:291)
line6_stream_start (sound/usb/line6/pcm.c:194)
line6_pcm_acquire (sound/usb/line6/pcm.c:337)
line6_startup_work (sound/usb/line6/driver.c:728)
process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:3396)
worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:3479 kernel/workqueue.c:3560)
kthread (kernel/kthread.c:436)
ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158)
ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245)
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888100bbd400
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-256 of size 256
The buggy address is located 0 bytes inside of
allocated 256-byte region [ffff888100bbd400, ffff888100bbd500)
Products Associated with CVE-2026-98836
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Affected Versions
Linux:- Version 7a0f55aeeb8f1fa32a119d34ddfefc6100936692 and below a84371be89c39ccc46c7af8b9eb15c448df9265f is affected.
- Version 7a0f55aeeb8f1fa32a119d34ddfefc6100936692 and below 3f75da1e4ee699f6650d23d6897cf443b01856c7 is affected.
- Version 7a0f55aeeb8f1fa32a119d34ddfefc6100936692 and below b78748424f29f07d310484b2b36afdececa74389 is affected.
- Version 7a0f55aeeb8f1fa32a119d34ddfefc6100936692 and below 61b0a5a114fa4552892da5c0ff2f42e63bf08c6b is affected.
- Version 4.9 is affected.
- Before 4.9 is unaffected.
- Version 6.12.113, <= 6.12.* is unaffected.
- Version 6.18.56, <= 6.18.* is unaffected.
- Version 7.2.10, <= 7.2.* is unaffected.
- Version 7.3-rc6, <= * is unaffected.