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CVE-2025-40269

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CVE-2025-40269

Published: Dec 6, 2025

Modified: May 23, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usb-audio: Fix potential overflow of PCM transfer buffer The PCM stream data in USB-audio driver is transferred over USB URB packet buffers, and each packet size is determined dynamically. The packet sizes are limited by some factors such as wMaxPacketSize USB descriptor. OTOH, in the current code, the actually used packet sizes are determined only by the rate and the PPS, which may be bigger than the size limit above. This results in a buffer overflow, as reported by syzbot. Basically when the limit is smaller than the calculated packet size, it implies that something is wrong, most likely a weird USB descriptor. So the best option would be just to return an error at the parameter setup time before doing any further operations. This patch introduces such a sanity check, and returns -EINVAL when the packet size is greater than maxpacksize. The comparison with ep->packsize[1] alone should suffice since it's always equal or greater than ep->packsize[0].

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
02c56650f3c118d3752122996d96173d26bb13aa - < 480a1490c595a242f27493a4544b3efb21b29f6a
affected
5ef30e443e6d3654cccecec99cf481a69a0a6d3b - < ab0b5e92fc36ee82c1bd01fe896d0f775ed5de41
affected
99703c921864a318e3e8aae74fde071b1ff35bea - < 282aba56713bbc58155716b55ca7222b2d9cf3c8
affected
2d50acd7dbd0682a56968ad9551341d7fc5b6eaf - < c4dc012b027c9eb101583011089dea14d744e314
affected
aba41867dd66939d336fdf604e4d73b805d8039f - < e0ed5a36fb3ab9e7b9ee45cd17f09f6d5f594360

+14 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
5.8
unaffected
0 - < 5.8
unaffected
4.4.230 - <= 4.4.*
unaffected
4.9.230 - <= 4.9.*
unaffected
4.14.188 - <= 4.14.*

+10 more versions

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