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CVE-2026-68346

Low risk· EPSS 11%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.21%

11th percentile - higher than 11% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the ALSA hda cs35l41 driver has a vulnerability involving memory leak and potential invalid pointer access when handling the ACPI mute object. The function cs35l41_get_acpi_mute_state() does not free the ACPI object after use and assumes the returned object is a buffer with at least one byte, which can lead to memory leak or invalid pointer access with a malformed firmware response.

Risk Assessment

May lead to memory exhaustion or system crash due to invalid pointer access.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel update that uses the typed _DSM helper, validates buffer length, and frees the ACPI object after reading.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: hda: cs35l41: validate and free ACPI mute object cs35l41_get_acpi_mute_state() evaluates a _DSM method to get the ACPI mute state and reads the first byte from the returned object. However, the returned ACPI object is owned by the caller and is never freed after use, so each successful query leaks the _DSM result object. The code also assumes that the returned object is a buffer with at least one byte. A malformed firmware response can return a different object type or an empty buffer, and the direct ret->buffer.pointer dereference can then access an invalid pointer. Use the typed _DSM helper, validate that the returned buffer contains at least one byte, and free the ACPI object after reading it.

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