media: usbtv: keep device alive while ALSA card exists (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-90032
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.16 % · percentile 5 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: usbtv: keep device alive while ALSA card exists The ALSA PCM callbacks store the driver state in pcm->private_data. An open PCM file can outlive USB disconnect because usbtv_audio_free() uses snd_card_free_when_closed(). The disconnect path can then drop the V4L2 device reference and free struct usbtv before ALSA releases the substream, so a later close dereferences freed memory in snd_usbtv_pcm_close(). Take a V4L2 device reference for the ALSA card and drop it from the card private_free callback. This keeps struct usbtv valid until ALSA has closed the remaining files and freed the card.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 63ddf68de52efaac40a9287e44266ac30e71dd36 < 97b5e8b22b98e287481a97a9a4cfebbb348738a5 ; affected 63ddf68de52efaac40a9287e44266ac30e71dd36 < 503be26ff888cb3576e55d251895d290e8146f27 ; affected 63ddf68de52efaac40a9287e44266ac30e71dd36 < be0f7745f883386e5263b4e475686a81dfa87175 ; affected 63ddf68de52efaac40a9287e44266ac30e71dd36 < 67374e3a00814dcdd46e9feca61f69f7f2d81957 ; affected 63ddf68de52efaac40a9287e44266ac30e71dd36 < 239d1683e08b2aee2a15ef35706e1ea9a76681d8 ; affected 63ddf68de52efaac40a9287e44266ac30e71dd36 < 7690a86b193271322cd31ab77349a87aa10858e4
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.18 ; unaffected 0 < 3.18 ; unaffected 5.10.270 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.221 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.188 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.157 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD