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FKIE_CVE-2024-44954

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-09-04 19:15 - Updated: 2026-08-04 11:20

Severity

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
4.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: line6: Fix racy access to midibuf There can be concurrent accesses to line6 midibuf from both the URB completion callback and the rawmidi API access. This could be a cause of KMSAN warning triggered by syzkaller below (so put as reported-by here). This patch protects the midibuf call of the former code path with a spinlock for avoiding the possible races.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15b7a03205b31bc5623378c190d22b7ff60026f1	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40f3d5cb0e0cbf7fa697913a27d5d361373bdcf5	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51d87f11dd199bbc6a85982b088ff27bde53b48a	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/535df7f896a568a8a1564114eaea49d002cb1747	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/643293b68fbb6c03f5e907736498da17d43f0d81	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a54da4b787dcac60b598da69c9c0072812b8282d	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c80f454a805443c274394b1db0d1ebf477abd94e	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7e7d2b180d8f297cea6db43ea72402fd33e1a29	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00003.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	6.11
linux	linux_kernel	6.11

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CVE-2024-44954 (GCVE-0-2024-44954)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-04 18:35 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:37

Title

ALSA: line6: Fix racy access to midibuf

Summary

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-09-10 17:40 UTC

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6637 records in the last 180 days details

References

10 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/643293b68fbb6c03f…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40f3d5cb0e0cbf7fa…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7e7d2b180d8f297c…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a54da4b787dcac60b…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c80f454a805443c27…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/535df7f896a568a8a…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51d87f11dd199bbc6…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15b7a03205b31bc56…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 705ececd1c60d0f5d6ef2a719008847883516970 , < 643293b68fbb6c03f5e907736498da17d43f0d81 (git) Affected: 705ececd1c60d0f5d6ef2a719008847883516970 , < 40f3d5cb0e0cbf7fa697913a27d5d361373bdcf5 (git) Affected: 705ececd1c60d0f5d6ef2a719008847883516970 , < e7e7d2b180d8f297cea6db43ea72402fd33e1a29 (git) Affected: 705ececd1c60d0f5d6ef2a719008847883516970 , < a54da4b787dcac60b598da69c9c0072812b8282d (git) Affected: 705ececd1c60d0f5d6ef2a719008847883516970 , < c80f454a805443c274394b1db0d1ebf477abd94e (git) Affected: 705ececd1c60d0f5d6ef2a719008847883516970 , < 535df7f896a568a8a1564114eaea49d002cb1747 (git) Affected: 705ececd1c60d0f5d6ef2a719008847883516970 , < 51d87f11dd199bbc6a85982b088ff27bde53b48a (git) Affected: 705ececd1c60d0f5d6ef2a719008847883516970 , < 15b7a03205b31bc5623378c190d22b7ff60026f1 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 2.6.30 Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.30 (semver) Unaffected: 4.19.320 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.282 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.224 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.165 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.105 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.46 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.10.5 , ≤ 6.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.11 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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