Linux Kernel kernel performance subsystem Use-After-Free Rated 7.8 CVSS

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-53192

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ALSA: timer: Fix UAF at snd_timer_user_params()

At releasing a timer object, e.g. when a userspace timer

(CONFIG_SND_UTIMER) gets closed and snd_timer_free() is called, it

tries to detach the timer instances and release the resources.

However, it's still possible that other in-flight tasks are holding

the timer instance where the to-be-deleted timer object is associated,

and this may lead to racy accesses.

Fortunately, most of ioctls dealing with the timer instance list

already have the protection with register_mutex, and this also avoids

such races. But, SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_PARAMS isn't protected, hence the

concurrent ioctl may lead to use-after-free.

This patch just adds the guard with register_mutex to protect

snd_timer_user_params() for covering the code path as a quick

workaround. It's no hot-path but rather a rarely issued ioctl, so the

performance penalty doesn't matter. (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's and Siemens's web pages for any future patch releases.

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