CVE-2025-39765
CVE-2025-39765CVE-2025-39765
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: timer: fix ida_free call while not allocated
In the snd_utimer_create() function, if the kasprintf() function return
NULL, snd_utimer_put_id() will be called, finally use ida_free()
to free the unallocated id 0.
the syzkaller reported the following information:
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ida_free called for id=0 which is not allocated.
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1286 at lib/idr.c:592 ida_free+0x1fd/0x2f0 lib/idr.c:592
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1286 Comm: syz-executor164 Not tainted 6.15.8 #3 PREEMPT(lazy)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-4.fc42 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:ida_free+0x1fd/0x2f0 lib/idr.c:592
Code: f8 fc 41 83 fc 3e 76 69 e8 70 b2 f8 (...)
RSP: 0018:ffffc900007f79c8 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 1ffff920000fef3b RCX: ffffffff872176a5
RDX: ffff88800369d200 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88800369d200
RBP: 0000000000000
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.5 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-10-19 |