PT-2026-52289 · Linux · Linux
Published
2026-06-25
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Updated
2026-06-25
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CVE-2026-53193
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: timer: Forcibly close timer instances at closing
When snd timer object is freed via snd timer free() and still pending
snd timer instance objects are assigned to the timer object, it tries
to unlink all instances and just set NULL to each ti->timer, then
releases the resources immediately. The problem is, however, when
there are slave timer instances that are associated with a master
instance linked to this timer: namely, those slave instances still
point to the freed timer object although the master instance is
unlinked, which may lead to user-after-free. The bug can be easily
triggered particularly when a new userspace-driven timers
(CONFIG SND UTIMER) is involved, since it can create and delete the
timer object via a simple file open/close, while the other
applications may keep accessing to that timer.
This patch is an attempt to paper over the problem above: now instead
of just unlinking, call snd timer close locked forcibly for each
pending timer instance, so that all assigned slave timer instances are
properly detached, too. Since snd timer close() might be called later
by the driver that created that instance, the check of
SNDRV TIMER IFLG DEAD is added at the beginning, too.
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