ALSA: pcm: Fix race of buffer access at PCM OSS layer
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: pcm: Fix race of buffer access at PCM OSS layer The PCM OSS layer tries to clear the buffer with the silence data at initialization (or reconfiguration) of a stream with the explicit call of snd_pcm_format_set_silence() with runtime->dma_area. But this may lead to a UAF because the accessed runtime->dma_area might be freed concurrently, as it's performed outside the PCM ops. For avoiding it, move the code into the PCM core and perform it inside the buffer access lock, so that it won't be changed during the operation.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
1844 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: pcm: Fix race of buffer access at PCM OSS layer The PCM OSS layer tries to clear the buffer with the silence data at initialization (or reconfiguration) of a stream with the explicit call of snd_pcm_format_set_silence() with runtime->dma_area. But this may lead to a UAF because the accessed runtime->dma_area might be freed concurrently, as it's performed outside the PCM ops. For avoiding it, move the code into the PCM core and perform it inside the buffer access lock, so that it won't be changed during the operation.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/10217da9644ae75cea7330f902c35fc5ba78bbbf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74d90875f3d43f3eff0e9861c4701418795d3455
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8170d8ec4efd0be352c14cb61f374e30fb0c2a25
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93a81ca0657758b607c3f4ba889ae806be9beb73
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/afa56c960fcb4db37f2e3399f28e9402e4e1f470
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf85e49aaf3a3c5775ea87369ea5f159c2148db4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0e05a76fc727929524ef24a19c302e6dd40233f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3e14d706ec18faf19f5a6e75060e140fea05d4a
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38078.json
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38078