CVE-2026-93808 (GCVE-0-2026-93808)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-24 16:02 – Updated: 2026-10-03 10:57
VLAI
Title
ALSA: usb-audio: caiaq: validate EP1 reply lengths
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usb-audio: caiaq: validate EP1 reply lengths usb_ep1_command_reply_dispatch() uses buf[0] as a command byte and then reads command-specific fixed items from the same URB buffer. Several paths use buf + 1, buf[1], buf[2], or buf + 3 without first proving that urb->actual_length contains those bytes. Add per-command length checks, use a payload length derived from the bytes after the command byte for the control-state copy, and reject short analog input payloads before the input helper reads fixed offsets from the EP1 reply.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6856 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 523f1dce37434a9a6623bf46e7893e2b4b10ac3c , < 91acd231f219452fa58285239f83945accad9513 (git)
Affected: 523f1dce37434a9a6623bf46e7893e2b4b10ac3c , < 7cc6b3745a0cea697c8d0684b3094f220281a08d (git)
Affected: 523f1dce37434a9a6623bf46e7893e2b4b10ac3c , < add9328c91c195c494cd68a21b19e5e47a20d784 (git)
Affected: 523f1dce37434a9a6623bf46e7893e2b4b10ac3c , < 319393151367e6626affedcdd4f7b7b0286f4246 (git)
Affected: 523f1dce37434a9a6623bf46e7893e2b4b10ac3c , < af8a172c4f71ac30d625f2966d2389a7fa872819 (git)
Affected: 523f1dce37434a9a6623bf46e7893e2b4b10ac3c , < 74f3c639f64fa5da4e1613149798b5089bce2807 (git)
Affected: 523f1dce37434a9a6623bf46e7893e2b4b10ac3c , < aba30af07d4fe499b50209801eba9da8a815522f (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.22
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.22 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.271 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.222 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.189 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.158 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.111 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.53 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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