CVE-2026-72262

ASoC: SOF: ipc3-control: Fix heap overflow in bytes_ext put/get

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: August 15, 2026 at 05:54 AM UTC
Updated: October 16, 2026 at 07:17 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: SOF: ipc3-control: Fix heap overflow in bytes_ext put/get The ipc_control_data buffer is allocated as kzalloc(max_size), where max_size covers the entire struct sof_ipc_ctrl_data including its flexible array payload. However, the bounds checks in bytes_ext_put and _bytes_ext_get compared user data lengths against max_size directly, ignoring that cdata->data sits at an offset of sizeof(struct sof_ipc_ctrl_data) bytes into the allocation. This allowed writing up to sizeof(struct sof_ipc_ctrl_data) bytes past the end of the heap buffer from unprivileged userspace via the ALSA TLV kcontrol interface, and similarly allowed over-reading adjacent heap data on the get path. Fix all bounds checks to subtract sizeof(*cdata) from max_size so they reflect the actual space available at the cdata->data offset. Also fix the error-path restore in bytes_ext_put which wrote to cdata->data instead of cdata, causing the same overflow.

Affected

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

5.1867ec2a091630c28ea8d05db2bd7178a05b04b7e6
Vendor states this is fixed in 121577383b5cf221e86581e0f2bcca4c66f17469 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 1adde1941bba7b0d7104b86ed819d48d81cb0ad9 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in af4b437a463ac0482ba705434a44da06783778e6 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in eaa67e139c9217099e2a7b717aeeb46c65de3494 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in f4933e1d11b97b6a0951648b7c3e53850e1b33a9 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in fd46668d538993218eea19c6925c868ac0f2630c (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.18 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.184 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.97 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.40 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.145 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.5 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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SSVC — Action Prioritization

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

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