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GHSA-H6XR-332M-PX9V

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-12-24 12:30 – Updated: 2026-07-30 06:32

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ALSA: firewire-motu: fix buffer overflow in hwdep read for DSP events

The DSP event handling code in hwdep_read() could write more bytes to the user buffer than requested, when a user provides a buffer smaller than the event header size (8 bytes).

Fix by using min_t() to clamp the copy size, This ensures we never copy more than the user requested.

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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CVE-2025-68347 (GCVE-0-2025-68347)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-24 10:32 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:10

Title

ALSA: firewire-motu: fix buffer overflow in hwdep read for DSP events

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: firewire-motu: fix buffer overflow in hwdep read for DSP events The DSP event handling code in hwdep_read() could write more bytes to the user buffer than requested, when a user provides a buffer smaller than the event header size (8 bytes). Fix by using min_t() to clamp the copy size, This ensures we never copy more than the user requested.

Severity

7.8 (High)


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

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16620f06174007469…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ddd32ec66bc4eb696…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6275fd726d53a8ec7…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/161291bac551821bb…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cdda0d06f8650e332…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/210d77cca3d0494ed…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 634ec0b2906efd46f6f57977e172aa3470aca432 , < 16620f0617400746984362c3d6ac547eeae1d35f (git) Affected: 634ec0b2906efd46f6f57977e172aa3470aca432 , < ddd32ec66bc4eb6969fe835e4cc1c0706c6348fe (git) Affected: 634ec0b2906efd46f6f57977e172aa3470aca432 , < 6275fd726d53a8ec724f20201cf3bd862711e17b (git) Affected: 634ec0b2906efd46f6f57977e172aa3470aca432 , < 161291bac551821bba98eb4ea84c82338578d1b0 (git) Affected: 634ec0b2906efd46f6f57977e172aa3470aca432 , < cdda0d06f8650e33255f79839f188bbece44117c (git) Affected: 634ec0b2906efd46f6f57977e172aa3470aca432 , < 210d77cca3d0494ed30a5c628b20c1d95fa04fb1 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.16 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.16 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.160 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.120 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.63 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.17.13 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.2 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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