ALSA: pcm: wake linked drain waiters on unlink
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 4 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
Summary
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_rwsem stopped being held across the wait and the removal became conditional on group membership (see Fixes). The later switch to finish_wait() kept that conditional removal, so the signal/timeout case remained.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.10.265, 5.15.216, 6.1.183, 6.6.151, 6.12.103, 6.18.44, 7.1.8, 7.2
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Affected | No fix yet |
Not affected: 1 product
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-80716
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-j63j-489f-v3q9
- 2026-10-18 CISA SSVC decision points changed
References
Other 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c172e4c53321ee6429955295ea133bc3597a3ca9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3035bb784cea3f338934f5042dd3f35225a51b2e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c1b7e8e545ce65e40f65b55c432765e058ea98f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8b784a3f4fba3ea9c4d05138ecfa784a069627f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8315330e4ec09c0cac625515400e13d0ee22b81
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2940cc3cf43c72126b74ee6376314c195382023a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db09bc4ab19ce548a078240d2374792523953500
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f495b6c4c8594122918552c9be2b51eb71647cd9
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Sources
- CVE-2026-80716 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-80716 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-j63j-489f-v3q9 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-80716 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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