CVE-2026-46157

ALSA: pcm: oss: Fix data race at accessing runtime.oss.trigger

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: May 28, 2026 at 09:36 AM UTC
Updated: October 21, 2026 at 01:19 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: pcm: oss: Fix data race at accessing runtime.oss.trigger Currently the runtime.oss.trigger field may be accessed concurrently without protection, which may lead to the data race. And, in this case, it may lead to more severe problem because it's a bit field; as writing the data, it may overwrite other bit fields as well, which confuses the operation completely, as spotted by fuzzing. Fix it by covering runtime.oss.trigger bit fled also with the existing params_lock mutex in both snd_pcm_oss_get_trigger() and snd_pcm_oss_poll().

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Vendor states this is fixed in 49f9d048845be874df7997e4b1ce662de450c4b6 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6b01c1bc9a4748ab37548a700a8aaff910e298e6 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 901ac0ff15edf9503162e2cf6579bd11a30f1ed4 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in ac3e9b55b7da6f0be51720bd330a0edc1a8b61f1 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 2.6.12 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.88 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.30 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.160 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.0.7 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1 (unaffected)

CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-362

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