CVE-2025-39997
Published: Oct 15, 2025
Modified: Jun 1, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usb-audio: fix race condition to UAF in snd_usbmidi_free The previous commit 0718a78f6a9f ("ALSA: usb-audio: Kill timer properly at removal") patched a UAF issue caused by the error timer. However, because the error timer kill added in this patch occurs after the endpoint delete, a race condition to UAF still occurs, albeit rarely. Additionally, since kill-cleanup for urb is also missing, freed memory can be accessed in interrupt context related to urb, which can cause UAF. Therefore, to prevent this, error timer and urb must be killed before freeing the heap memory.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 06513dd6d32c37d0364db8488cfdf3e14da238a8 - < e63f049c7764b615d1d50cb486745fa63372b42daffected efaf61052b8ff9ee8968912fbaf02c2847c78ede - < e16985513e89466a236d2a7c202783b4dd0c5a46affected 647410a7da46067953a53c0d03f8680eff570959 - < dc4874366cf6cf4a31d8fa4b7f0e2a5b2d7647baaffected c611b9e55174e439dcd85a72969b43a95f3827a4 - < 647d6b8d22be12842fde6ed0c56859ebc615f21eaffected 0718a78f6a9f04b88d0dc9616cc216b31c5f3cf1 - < af600e7f5526d16146b3ae99f6ad57bfea79ca33+5 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 6.16unaffected 0 - < 6.16unaffected 6.1.175 - <= 6.1.*unaffected 6.16.11 - <= 6.16.*unaffected 6.17.1 - <= 6.17.*+1 more versions |
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