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CVE-2026-74505

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CVSS
5.5 Medium
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.18%
Risk score
4.0
Published
2026-08-15
Status
Published

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: 6fire: Fix UAF at error handling during probe Although 6fire driver had a few fixes for dealing with the early error handling during the probe phase, it forgot a pending URB before freeing the resources, which may lead to a UAF. This patch addresses it by doing the almost same cleanup procedure like the normal disconnect phase at the error path. A flaw was found in the ALSA 6fire driver within the Linux kernel. During error handling in the probe phase, the driver failed to properly manage a pending USB Request Block (URB) before freeing associated resources. This oversight could lead to a Use-After-Free (UAF) vulnerability. A local attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a system crash (denial of service) or, in some scenarios, execute arbitrary code.

Weaknesses

CWE-825

Coverage 1

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