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CVE-2026-72261 (GCVE-0-2026-72261)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:54 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:42
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Title
ASoC: SOF: ipc3-control: Validate size in snd_sof_update_control
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: SOF: ipc3-control: Validate size in snd_sof_update_control In snd_sof_update_control(), firmware-provided cdata->num_elems is checked against local_cdata->data->size but never against the actual allocation size. If local_cdata->data->size was previously set to an inconsistent value, the memcpy could write past the allocated buffer. Add a bounds check to ensure num_elems fits within the available space in the ipc_control_data allocation before copying.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 10f461d79c2d1afb22344986cc1b4631169cf25e , < 1dc25a3e06364f48c4ef06016852f8b82425151a (git)
Affected: 10f461d79c2d1afb22344986cc1b4631169cf25e , < ee781058cd4d71e4449f41cbe6a3b8c59daa2c51 (git)
Affected: 10f461d79c2d1afb22344986cc1b4631169cf25e , < ecf67f1302f2080b4d241b973364aacda70ad740 (git)
Affected: 10f461d79c2d1afb22344986cc1b4631169cf25e , < d3abaedf6a58469610136d2dace1a85cddf7afcf (git)
Affected: 10f461d79c2d1afb22344986cc1b4631169cf25e , < 2a591bf6fd41fd14bdae689aafac4a9ee702c23c (git)
Affected: 10f461d79c2d1afb22344986cc1b4631169cf25e , < 390aa4c9339bb0ec0bc8d554e830faf93ca9d49e (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.178 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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