Tracker / CVE-2026-43459
CVE-2026-43459
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: soc-core: flush delayed work before removing DAIs and widgets When a sound card is unbound while a PCM stream is open, a use-after-free can occur in snd_soc_dapm_stream_event(), called from the close_delayed_work workqueue handler. During unbind, snd_soc_unbind_card() flushes delayed work and then calls soc_cleanup_card_resources(). Inside cleanup, snd_card_disconnect_sync() releases all PCM file descriptors, and the resulting PCM close path can call snd_soc_dapm_stream_stop() which schedules new delayed work with a pmdown_time timer delay. Since this happens after the flush in snd_soc_unbind_card(), the new work is not caught. soc_remove_link_components() then frees DAPM widgets before this work fires, leading to the use-after-free. The existing flush in soc_free_pcm_runtime() also cannot help as it runs after soc_remove_link_components() has already freed the widgets. Add a flush in soc_cleanup_card_resources() after snd_card_disconnect_sync() (after which no new PCM closes can schedule further delayed work) and before soc_remove_link_dais() and soc_remove_link_components() (which tear down the structures the delayed work accesses).
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.10.253 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.203 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.167 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.18.19 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.19 → 6.19.9 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.130 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.78 |