CVE-2026-98312
Low risk· EPSS 7%Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk7th percentile - higher than 7% of all known CVEs
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the ALSA driver for 6fire USB devices contains an out-of-bounds write in usb6fire_pcm_in_urb_handler(). A device can report an isochronous packet length less than 4 bytes, causing an integer underflow (wrap) in the subtraction and leading to a memset() with a huge size on a 4832-byte buffer. Even without the wrap, at 88.2/96 kHz the 4-in/6-out scaling causes the buffer to be exceeded.
Risk Assessment
The vulnerability can lead to kernel memory corruption, kernel panic, or potentially arbitrary code execution in kernel context. It requires connecting a malicious or faulty USB device compatible with the 6fire driver, which could be exploited via physical access or USB virtualization.
Recommendation
Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that guards the subtraction (as in usb6fire_pcm_capture()) and limits the frame count to rt->out_packet_size. If updating is not possible, consider disabling or blacklisting the snd-usb-6fire module.
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Original NVD description (English source)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: 6fire: fix OOB write from device-reported iso length usb6fire_pcm_in_urb_handler() sizes each outgoing isochronous packet as (actual_length - 4) / (in_n_analog << 2) * (out_n_analog << 2) + 4, where actual_length is the unsigned length the device reported for the matching IN packet. A packet completed with status 0 and actual_length < 4 wraps the subtraction to 0x7fffffec; a zero-length isochronous packet is legal on the bus, and the preceding loop rejects only non-zero status. The sum reaches memset() on out_urb->buffer, a 4832-byte object from kcalloc(PCM_MAX_PACKET_SIZE, PCM_N_PACKETS_PER_URB). Even without the wrap the result is out of bounds: at 88.2/96 kHz the 4-in/6-out scaling turns a full 420-byte IN packet into 628, so eight packets span 5024 bytes of that buffer. usb_submit_urb() rejects an over-long descriptor only after the memset() and the usb6fire_pcm_playback() copy of user PCM data have run. Guard the subtraction as the sibling usb6fire_pcm_capture() already does, and limit the frame count to what fits in rt->out_packet_size, the OUT endpoint's wMaxPacketSize. This bounds total_length by the buffer size while keeping each packet length aligned to a whole output frame. BUG: KASAN: out-of-bounds in usb6fire_pcm_in_urb_handler (sound/usb/6fire/pcm.c:338) Write of size 18446744073709551456 at addr ffff88802a3d0000 by task vhci_rx/5018 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:94 lib/dump_stack.c:120) print_report (mm/kasan/report.c:378 mm/kasan/report.c:482) kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:595) kasan_check_range (mm/kasan/generic.c:186 mm/kasan/generic.c:200) __asan_memset (mm/kasan/shadow.c:84) usb6fire_pcm_in_urb_handler (sound/usb/6fire/pcm.c:338) __usb_hcd_giveback_urb (drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1657) usb_hcd_giveback_urb (drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1741) vhci_rx_loop (drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_rx.c:107 drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_rx.c:242) kthread (kernel/kthread.c:436) ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158) ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245) Allocated by task 10: __kmalloc_cache_noprof (mm/slub.c:5563) usb6fire_pcm_init (sound/usb/6fire/pcm.c:560 sound/usb/6fire/pcm.c:595) usb6fire_chip_probe (sound/usb/6fire/chip.c:133) usb_probe_interface (drivers/usb/core/driver.c:399) The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88802a3d0000 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8k of size 8192 The buggy address is located 0 bytes inside of 4832-byte region [ffff88802a3d0000, ffff88802a3d12e0) Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
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