CVE-2026-80716EPSS p6.4%
CVE-2026-80716CVE-2026-80716
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: pcm: wake linked drain waiters on unlink
snd_pcm_drain() on a linked stream parks an on-stack wait entry on the
drained peer's runtime->sleep, and after schedule_timeout() removes it
only if that peer is still found in the caller's group. If group
membership changes during the wait and the sleep ends by signal or
timeout (so autoremove_wake_function() does not run), finish_wait() is
skipped and snd_pcm_drain() returns with the entry still queued on that
stream's sleep list; a later wake_up() then walks a freed stack frame.
This is reachable by unlinking either the drained or the draining stream.
Unlike the close path (snd_pcm_drop() -> snd_pcm_post_stop()),
snd_pcm_unlink() never wakes the sleep queues. Wake every group member
under the group lock before the membership change, so a linked drainer is
released and drops its entry while the streams are still grouped.
The window was opened when snd_pcm_link_rws
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.18% probability of exploitation · percentile 6.4% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-08-29 |