CVE-2026-74641
HighCVSS 7.8Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk2th percentile - higher than 2% of all known CVEs
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the ALSA usx2y driver (for USB US-X2Y sound cards) lacks offset validation in the mmap function for the hwdep interface. An attacker can supply an arbitrary offset, leading to access to kernel memory outside the allocated region, and in extreme cases to a system oops.
Risk Assessment
The risk includes privilege escalation or kernel memory disclosure, as a process with access to the hwdep node can gain read-write access to kernel memory pages. This may lead to system integrity compromise or a crash (oops).
Recommendation
Immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that bounds the offset in the mmap function for the usx2y driver. Also restrict access to US-X2Y hwdep devices to trusted processes only.
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- CVE-2026-99258Unknown
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- CVE-2026-99257Unknown
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- CVE-2026-99256Unknown
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- CVE-2026-99251Unknown
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- CVE-2026-99250Unknown
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- CVE-2026-99249Unknown
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- CVE-2026-99248Unknown
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- CVE-2026-99247Unknown
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Original NVD description (English source)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usx2y: bound the hwdep mmap fault offset snd_us428ctls_vm_fault() turns the faulting page offset into a kernel address with no bound of any kind: offset = vmf->pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT; vaddr = (char *)(...)->us428ctls_sharedmem + offset; page = virt_to_page(vaddr); get_page(page); vmf->page = page; return 0; snd_us428ctls_mmap() checks only the length of the mapping, never the offset, and us428ctls_sharedmem is a single page from alloc_pages_exact(). For a character device file_mmap_size_max() returns ULONG_MAX, so the mm layer imposes no ceiling either. Every page offset above zero resolves to a struct page outside the object, and the handler installs it into the caller's address space read-write; the vma is not marked read-only. The caller picks the page frame with a single mmap() argument and gets read-write access to a page of kernel memory it does not own; an offset that lands in an unpopulated vmemmap region oopses instead. A process that can open the hwdep node of an attached US-X2Y reaches this after loading the FPGA image through the same node; no capability check is involved. On 7.2.0-rc5 (arm64), mmap() with a large offset: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffffdffc45d5ac8 pc : snd_us428ctls_vm_fault+0x68/0x140 [snd_usb_usx2y] Call trace: snd_us428ctls_vm_fault+0x68/0x140 [snd_usb_usx2y] __do_fault __handle_mm_fault handle_mm_fault el0_da Reject any offset outside the shared region. The pcm hwdep handler in usx2yhwdeppcm.c computes its address the same way and needs the same bound. Discovered by XBOW, triaged by Baul Lee <[email protected]>
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