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CVE-2024-27436: ALSA: usb-audio: Stop parsing channels bits when all channels are found.
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2024-05-17 · updated 2026-10-15
- Weakness: CWE-787
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usb-audio: Stop parsing channels bits when all channels are found. If a usb audio device sets more bits than the amount of channels it could write outside of the map array.
Affected products
- Debian Linux: 10.0
- Linux kernel: from 3.8 before 4.19.311; from 4.20 before 5.4.273; from 5.5 before 5.10.214; from 5.11 before 5.15.153; from 5.16 before 6.1.83; from 6.2 before 6.6.23 — fixed in 4.19.311, 5.10.214, 5.15.153, 5.4.273, 6.1.83, 6.6.23
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 4.19.311, 5.10.214, 5.15.153, 5.4.273. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22cad1b841a63635a38273b799b4791f202ade72
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5cd466673b34bac369334f66cbe14bb77b7d7827
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/629af0d5fe94a35f498ba2c3f19bd78bfa591be6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d5dc96b154be371df0d62ecb07efe400701ed8a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d88b289fb0a8d055cb79d1c46a56aba7809d96d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e2c1b0f6dd9abde9e60f0f9730026714468770f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9af1658ba293458ca6a13f70637b9654fa4be064
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a39d51ff1f52cd0b6fe7d379ac93bd8b4237d1b7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8a24fd281dcdf3c926413dafbafcf35cde517a9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22cad1b841a63635a38273b799b4791f202ade72
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5cd466673b34bac369334f66cbe14bb77b7d7827
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/629af0d5fe94a35f498ba2c3f19bd78bfa591be6
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