CVE-2026-64479 (GCVE-0-2026-64479)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-25 08:51 – Updated: 2026-07-25 08:51
VLAI
Title
ALSA: seq: Fix uninitialised heap leak in snd_seq_event_dup()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: seq: Fix uninitialised heap leak in snd_seq_event_dup() snd_seq_event_dup() copies an incoming event into a pool cell and, in the UMP-enabled build, clears the trailing cell->ump.raw.extra word that the memcpy() did not cover. The guard deciding whether to clear it compares the copied size against sizeof(cell->event): memcpy(&cell->ump, event, size); if (size < sizeof(cell->event)) cell->ump.raw.extra = 0; For a legacy (non-UMP) event, size == sizeof(struct snd_seq_event) == sizeof(cell->event), so the condition is false and the extra word keeps stale data. The cell pool is allocated with kvmalloc() (not zeroed) and cells are reused via a free list, so that word holds uninitialised heap or leftover event data. When such a cell is delivered to a UMP client (client->midi_version > 0) that set SNDRV_SEQ_FILTER_NO_CONVERT -- so the legacy event reaches it unconverted -- snd_seq_read() reads it out as the larger struct snd_seq_ump_event and copies the stale word to user space, a 4-byte kernel heap infoleak to an unprivileged /dev/snd/seq client. Compare against sizeof(cell->ump) instead, so the trailing word is zeroed for every event shorter than the UMP cell.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 6389f2c135311c4ce7c08c3b29145c8f95aacf1f , < d7649aa11089a93ea2285c210397aa67e5800766 (git)
Affected: d7e2ce72833bb23a82b4201fbed7214cc04a4a8c , < a224c84e5d3d35708c082c84ad12d81d90762195 (git)
Affected: 46397622a3fa8372b8fda0f04b33d16923b03b1b , < ea672a9f6cc38f06fe69dd2c257ef8a3d4db179a (git)
Affected: 46397622a3fa8372b8fda0f04b33d16923b03b1b , < fb1aa5082847b98f44f9c6272aee9d0dca9244f0 (git)
Affected: 46397622a3fa8372b8fda0f04b33d16923b03b1b , < 651ba82fe2a144bc7356d940bfd235c3810b0549 (git)
Affected: 46397622a3fa8372b8fda0f04b33d16923b03b1b , < 6ded42615fa1f4949925afd0a8a9e1ab3bf96202 (git)
Affected: 46397622a3fa8372b8fda0f04b33d16923b03b1b , < 435990e25bf1f4af3e6df12a6fbfd1f7ba4a97d4 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.5
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.5 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.96 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.39 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.4 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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