CVE-2026-97418 (GCVE-0-2026-97418)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-24 16:03 – Updated: 2026-10-03 10:58
VLAI
Title
ALSA: es18xx: check control allocation before private data setup
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: es18xx: check control allocation before private data setup snd_es18xx_mixer() creates controls with snd_ctl_new1() and then stores bookkeeping pointers or sets private_free before calling snd_ctl_add(). snd_ctl_new1() can return NULL on allocation failure, so those writes can dereference a NULL control pointer. Check the returned control pointers before using them and return -ENOMEM on allocation failure.
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: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < e6c84fe4cf6f98f7b1ad446a42cfcb46bae83f66 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 908323ed61d5e7ad74889524d327cfb6a65ec8df (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 3d8adddf4e4a5a43847ee62e5e78ba05e756bdef (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 91c97a7969dae976de954453ab6e925e6522fecb (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 978079238f40f1a08ddb12ce208c484246f6a1b0 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < d88c24b76f285df9d206751e22c28e2613258cb3 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 422e42b7c2b882ba1d16d4afc8891bcea7c4de93 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.12 (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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