CVE-2026-53193

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: timer: Forcibly close timer instances at closing When snd_timer object is freed via snd_timer_free() and still pending snd_timer_instance objects are assigned to the timer object, it tries to unlink all instances and just set NULL to each ti->timer, then releases the resources immediately. The problem is, however, when there are slave timer instances that are associated with a master instance linked to this timer: namely, those slave instances still point to the freed timer object although the master instance is unlinked, which may lead to user-after-free. The bug can be easily triggered particularly when a new userspace-driven timers (CONFIG_SND_UTIMER) is involved, since it can create and delete the timer object via a simple file open/close, while the other applications may keep accessing to that timer. This patch is an attempt to paper over the problem above: now instead of just unlinking, call snd_timer_close[_locked]() forcibly for each pending timer instance, so that all assigned slave timer instances are properly detached, too. Since snd_timer_close() might be called later by the driver that created that instance, the check of SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_DEAD is added at the beginning, too.

Impact & exploitability

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

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/586b219a22b1032b28b8bd356b963276c5e5bf53 ↗

Additional information

• NVD record
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/586b219a22b1032b28b8bd356b963276c5e5bf53Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60e73ab87b84bbd6bd7ddd1d16019a3a3705ab8fPatch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da3039e91d1f835874ed6e9a33ea19ee80c2cb92Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f46093dd22969037beb1fce2e043f3236be41c92Patch