CVE-2026-68346 ALSA: hda: cs35l41: validate and free ACPI mute object

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: hda: cs35l41: validate and free ACPI mute object cs35l41getacpimutestate evaluates a DSM method to get the ACPI mute state and reads the first byte from the returned object. However, the returned ACPI object is owned by the...

CVE-2025-40098

CVE-2025-40098 affects the Linux kernel ALSA HDA driver for cs35l41. The issue is a NULL pointer dereference: acpi_evaluate_dsm() may return NULL and is dereferenced without a NULL check, risking a crash. The advisory notes this was fixed by adding a NULL check in cs35l41_get_acpi_mute_state() (a...