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CVE-2026-72302 (GCVE-0-2026-72302)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:55 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:42
VLAI
Title
ASoC: SOF: ipc3-control: Use overflow checks in control_update size calc
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: SOF: ipc3-control: Use overflow checks in control_update size calc In sof_ipc3_control_update(), the expected_size calculation uses firmware-provided cdata->num_elems in arithmetic that could overflow on 32-bit platforms, wrapping to a small value. This would allow the cdata->rhdr.hdr.size comparison to pass with mismatched sizes, potentially leading to out-of-bounds access in snd_sof_update_control. Use check_mul_overflow() and check_add_overflow() to detect and reject overflowed size calculations.
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 , < 6856b3c23b0995eefad5a6142b4365ef70e1fe4a (git)
Affected: 10f461d79c2d1afb22344986cc1b4631169cf25e , < 89a2309a9eec80d4c19e3aed62c4f923594d1911 (git)
Affected: 10f461d79c2d1afb22344986cc1b4631169cf25e , < ffd79e77f2fbacd7a5d40ad1d4c7f3f089a8f2f3 (git)
Affected: 10f461d79c2d1afb22344986cc1b4631169cf25e , < 711d912b18763af62a63aa8f2419a774eb63bba4 (git)
Affected: 10f461d79c2d1afb22344986cc1b4631169cf25e , < 312c7d2ebe696da3f885eee77d52297664e57c53 (git)
Affected: 10f461d79c2d1afb22344986cc1b4631169cf25e , < 8791977d7289f6e9d2b014f60a5455f053a7bc04 (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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