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CVE-2026-72488 (GCVE-0-2026-72488)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:57 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:44
VLAI
Title
soundwire: fix bug in sdw_add_element_group_count found by syzkaller
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: soundwire: fix bug in sdw_add_element_group_count found by syzkaller The original implementation caused an out-of-bounds memory access in the sdw_add_element_group_count for-loop when i == num. for (i = 0; i <= num; i++) { if (rate == group->rates[i] && lane == group->lanes[i]) ... To fix this error, the function now checks for existing rate/lane entries in the group(a function parameter) using a for-loop before adding them. No functional changes apart from this fix.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 9026118f20e28f202dab34f219bbb831ffb8c4dc , < a454f61747c97e2eadaa7a35ffc1f4b1645c6a53 (git)
Affected: 9026118f20e28f202dab34f219bbb831ffb8c4dc , < e483a406a23a92d5202e8d324f206e127eef48ff (git)
Affected: 9026118f20e28f202dab34f219bbb831ffb8c4dc , < f772ff5a0e6758fd412803c09e03ba3bca5f5878 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.10 (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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