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CVE-2026-72403 (GCVE-0-2026-72403)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:56 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:14
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Title
ALSA: FCP: Fix NULL pointer dereference in interface lookup
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: FCP: Fix NULL pointer dereference in interface lookup A malformed USB device can provide a vendor-specific interface without any endpoint descriptors. fcp_find_fc_interface() currently selects the first vendor-specific interface and reads endpoint 0 from it, without checking whether the interface actually has any endpoints. When bNumEndpoints is zero, no endpoint array is allocated for the parsed alternate setting, so get_endpoint(..., 0) yields an invalid endpoint descriptor pointer. Dereferencing it through usb_endpoint_num() then triggers a NULL pointer dereference. Skip vendor-specific interfaces that do not have any endpoints.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 46757a3e7d50dac923888e7fbe68377736f13c70 , < f28d7b5f1578a7501ab17b10643ed1e4f729187e (git)
Affected: 46757a3e7d50dac923888e7fbe68377736f13c70 , < 3ab06151ffcb8c3aeb8f78508658b6c0f05be932 (git)
Affected: 46757a3e7d50dac923888e7fbe68377736f13c70 , < e1e31e0ec8a609e17fd2e86b77bc00d9cbb24d7c (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.14 (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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