CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-37891

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.21%

12th percentile - higher than 12% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the ALSA UMP subsystem has a buffer overflow during SysEx message conversion from MIDI 1.0 to UMP. The conversion function used a buffer too small (4 bytes) for the SysEx format, which can require up to 6 bytes, leading to overflow and potential memory corruption.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could send a specially crafted long SysEx message, causing a buffer overflow and potentially system instability or arbitrary code execution in kernel context.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that increases the buffer size to 6 bytes, or update to a kernel version where the vulnerability is fixed.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: ump: Fix buffer overflow at UMP SysEx message conversion The conversion function from MIDI 1.0 to UMP packet contains an internal buffer to keep the incoming MIDI bytes, and its size is 4, as it was supposed to be the max size for a MIDI1 UMP packet data. However, the implementation overlooked that SysEx is handled in a different format, and it can be up to 6 bytes, as found in do_convert_to_ump(). It leads eventually to a buffer overflow, and may corrupt the memory when a longer SysEx message is received. The fix is simply to extend the buffer size to 6 to fit with the SysEx UMP message.

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