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That is memory corruption,\n   not just a NULL dereference.\n\nThe request is reachable from unprivileged local userspace over\nAF_QIPCRTR. 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That is memory corruption,\n   not just a NULL dereference.\n\nThe request is reachable from unprivileged local userspace over\nAF_QIPCRTR. Reject a disable request with no resolved interface, matching\nthe guard the enable path already has."}],"metrics":[{"cvssV3_1":{"baseScore":7.8,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"scenarios":[{"lang":"en","value":"AV:L - Exploitation requires sending a crafted QMI stream-disable request via the AF_QIPCRTR local socket API into the kernel-registered UAUDIO QMI server; it is not reachable over the network or by plugging in USB alone.\nAC:L - An attacker can deterministically trigger the bug by sending enable=0 with a valid usb_token for a probed USB-audio card when no matching interface exists; no race or attacker-uncontrollable memory layout is required.\nPR:L - AF_QIPCRTR permits unprivileged local userspace to deliver QMI requests to the registered service without root or CAP_NET_ADMIN, and the fix commit explicitly states the path is reachable from unprivileged userspace.\nUI:N - Exploitation is a direct programmatic QMI disable request and does not require the victim to mount filesystems, open files, or perform any interactive action at trigger time.\nS:U - The flaw corrupts kernel heap memory within the same kernel security authority; it does not by itself cross a VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary to another security domain.\nC:H - When a card was previously enabled, a failed interface lookup yields a negative index that performs an out-of-bounds slab read of endpoint pipe fields before the allocated intf_info array, enabling kernel memory disclosure.\nI:H - The same out-of-bounds path can perform up to two conditional 4-byte writes clearing data_ep_pipe and sync_ep_pipe in adjacent slab memory, constituting exploitable kernel heap corruption rather than a benign crash.\nA:H - If the card was never enabled, info is NULL and indexing with -EINVAL dereferences a wild pointer reading data_ep_pipe, causing a kernel oops/panic and complete local denial of service."}]}],"providerMetadata":{"dateUpdated":"2026-08-17T05:44:17.542Z","orgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","shortName":"Linux"},"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25a867aa5e67a84333fa6e5c21292c5bcff86b90"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a22356d1f731553e99aa2707dbd38c659bdd28d8"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bdb640be82e645e2828731648f485224d0c2587b"}],"title":"ALSA: usb-audio: qcom: reject stream disable with no active interface","x_generator":{"engine":"bippy-1.2.0"}}},"cveMetadata":{"assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","assignerShortName":"Linux","cveId":"CVE-2026-72446","datePublished":"2026-08-15T05:56:56.470Z","dateReserved":"2026-08-09T03:40:39.930Z","dateUpdated":"2026-08-17T05:44:17.542Z","state":"PUBLISHED"},"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2"},"nvd":{"publishedDate":"2026-08-15 06:22:18","lastModifiedDate":"2026-08-17 06:19:12","problem_types":[],"metrics":{"cvssMetricV31":[{"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","type":"Secondary","cvssData":{"version":"3.1","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","baseScore":7.8,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","attackVector":"LOCAL","attackComplexity":"LOW","privilegesRequired":"LOW","userInteraction":"NONE","scope":"UNCHANGED","confidentialityImpact":"HIGH","integrityImpact":"HIGH","availabilityImpact":"HIGH"},"exploitabilityScore":1.8,"impactScore":5.9}]},"configurations":[]},"legacy_mitre":{"record":{"CveYear":"2026","CveId":"72446","Ordinal":"1","Title":"ALSA: usb-audio: qcom: reject stream disable with no active inte","CVE":"CVE-2026-72446","Year":"2026"},"notes":[{"CveYear":"2026","CveId":"72446","Ordinal":"1","NoteData":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: usb-audio: qcom: reject stream disable with no active interface\n\nhandle_uaudio_stream_req() resolves an interface index with\ninfo_idx_from_ifnum(), which returns -EINVAL when no interface matches.\nThe enable branch and the response: cleanup label both guard against a\nnegative index, but the disable branch does not: it forms\ninfo = &uadev[pcm_card_num].info[info_idx] and dereferences it.\n\nuadev[].info is a pointer allocated only when a stream is first enabled,\nso a negative info_idx on the disable path is unsafe in two ways:\n\n - If the card was never enabled, .info is NULL and &info[-EINVAL] is a\n   wild pointer; reading info->data_ep_pipe faults (kernel oops).\n\n - If the card was enabled at least once (.info allocated) and the\n   disable names an interface that does not match, &info[-EINVAL] points\n   before the allocation; info->data_ep_pipe / info->sync_ep_pipe are an\n   out-of-bounds slab read and, when non-zero, an out-of-bounds 4-byte\n   write (both pipe fields are cleared to 0). That is memory corruption,\n   not just a NULL dereference.\n\nThe request is reachable from unprivileged local userspace over\nAF_QIPCRTR. Reject a disable request with no resolved interface, matching\nthe guard the enable path already has.","Type":"Description","Title":"ALSA: usb-audio: qcom: reject stream disable with no active inte"}]}}}