kernel: Linux kernel ALSA USB audio driver: Buffer overflow leading to information disclosure and denial of service

A flaw was found in the ALSA USB audio driver of the Linux kernel. This vulnerability, a buffer overflow, occurs when the size of the Pulse-Code Modulation PCM stream data packets exceeds the maximum allowed by the USB descriptor. A local attacker could exploit this by providing specially crafted...

RHEL 9 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2026:3375)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:3375 advisory. The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirement...

CVE-2025-40097

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: hda: Fix missing pointer check in hdacomponentmanagerinit function The componentmatchadd function may assign the 'matchptr' pointer the value ERRPTR-ENOMEM, which will subsequently be dereferenced. The call stack leading to...

kernel: ALSA: usb-audio: Fix out of bounds reads when finding clock sources

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's USB Audio driver. This flaw can allow an attacker with physical access to the system to use a malicious USB device to gain additional access. This is possible by reading arbitrary system memory...