CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-52964

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.18%

7th percentile - higher than 7% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a vulnerability was found in the USB MIDI 2.0 parser that does not properly validate descriptor lengths when scanning endpoint extra data. This could allow out-of-bounds reads by a malicious USB device.

Risk Assessment

An attacker with physical USB access could connect a crafted device, causing kernel memory reads beyond the allowed area, potentially leading to information disclosure or system instability.

Recommendation

Immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix (commit 5a6e8a7b9c0d) or apply a security patch from your distribution vendor.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usb-audio: Bound MIDI 2.0 endpoint descriptor scans The USB MIDI 2.0 endpoint parser has the same descriptor walking pattern as the legacy MIDI parser. It validates bLength against bNumGrpTrmBlock before reading baAssoGrpTrmBlkID[], but not against the remaining bytes in the endpoint-extra scan. A malformed device can therefore make later baAssoGrpTrmBlkID[] reads consume bytes past the walked descriptor. Reject zero-length and overlong descriptors while walking endpoint extras.

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