Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-80973

"The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - ALSA: 6fire: bound the MIDI event length from the device usb6firecommreceiverhandler forwards a MIDI event using a length byte the device supplies, with no bou...

CVE-2026-80973

CVE-2026-80973 affects the Linux kernel's ALSA snd_usb_6fire driver. In usb6fire_comm_receiver_handler(), a MIDI event length byte supplied by the USB device is used without bounding it or checking urb->actual_length. The receiver_buffer is a 64-byte allocation (2-byte header + 62 usable bytes...