Out-of-bounds write in Linux kernel ASoC qcom LPASS CPU driver
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Fixed
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
The Linux kernel from 5.14 has a flaw in the ASoC qcom lpass-cpu driver, where playback channel constraints for a DAI are set by indexing the driver table with the DAI's hardware port ID. On platforms with sparse DAI IDs, this writes beyond the table entry and modifies a different entry than the DAI being configured.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-06
Description from the CNA
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: qcom: lpass-cpu: use DAI table index for playback constraints The DAI ID is a hardware port ID and is not necessarily the index of the corresponding entry in variant->dai_driver. When configuring a DAI with LPAIF_I2SCTL_MODE_QUAD01, the probe code currently uses dai_id to index variant->dai_driver. This is incorrect for platforms where DAI IDs are sparse. For example, the IPQ806x MI2S DAI has ID 4 while it is the only entry in the DAI driver table. If that DAI is configured for QUAD01 and probe reaches this branch, the code writes beyond that single entry via dai_driver[4] instead of updating the DAI being processed. Use the loop index i when updating the current DAI's playback channel constraints, while retaining dai_id for indexing the hardware-port specific playback SD-line mode array. This fixes the incorrect DAI table access for platforms where the DAI ID does not match its position in the driver table.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
Update the Linux kernel to a fixed version for its branch: 5.15.224, 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.12.113, 6.18.56, 7.2.10 or 7.3.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-06
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.15.224, 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.12.113, 6.18.56, 7.2.10, 7.3
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 7 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5
Timeline
- 2026-10-23 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-98940
- 2026-10-23 Alias added: GHSA-h32j-cg7c-ppw6
- 2026-10-30 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-10-30 CVSS score added · Red Hat
- 2026-10-30 Fix available: Linux/[email protected], Linux/[email protected], Linux/Linux@63987bb73df65fb01245b5905b005aa47c1dd27a +1 · CNA
- 2026-10-30 2 new references · CNA
- 2026-11-06 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
Other 7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c10823507a74d7474391c01121e3f59901b1789f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63987bb73df65fb01245b5905b005aa47c1dd27a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/775df6a27e8433e2414124472938009b958f9a77
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6833f1893ac2ec40016c348779af63debf3700d2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69d2b7a4c115181629eb14d800aecc3e7de3f7fb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f11336e6d3cd9e28e5cdf1cb8a6171e7c3eff4e4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca51771c8efde5df05476ac98dd1b2af4e2b149f
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Sources
- CVE-2026-98940 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-98940 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-h32j-cg7c-ppw6 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-98940 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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