Memory disclosure or crash via malformed UAC3 descriptors
Published Sep 11, 2025 · Updated Jun 11, 2026
Out-of-bounds access in Linux ALSA USB audio allows local users to disclose kernel memory or crash the system via a malicious UAC3 device. The sound/usb/stream.c parser processes cluster segment descriptors without first ensuring that the remaining buffer contains the descriptor header and its declared length. Exploitation requires locally supplied malicious UAC3 firmware; SIMATIC CN 4100 versions before V5.0 also contain the affected kernel code.
Summary
What happened
Out-of-bounds access in Linux ALSA USB audio allows local users to disclose kernel memory or crash the system via a malicious UAC3 device. The sound/usb/stream.c parser processes cluster segment descriptors without first ensuring that the remaining buffer contains the descriptor header and its declared length. Exploitation requires locally supplied malicious UAC3 firmware; SIMATIC CN 4100 versions before V5.0 also contain the affected kernel code.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-39757
- Published
- Sep 11, 2025
- Updated
- Jun 11, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-20, CWE-125, T1200
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Sep 11, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jun 11, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=11785ef53228d23ec386f5fe4a34601536f0c891 <1034719fdefd26caeec0a44a868bb5a412c2c1a5
- Affected versionversion=11785ef53228d23ec386f5fe4a34601536f0c891 <275e37532e8ebe25e8a4069b2d9f955bfd202a46
- Affected versionversion=11785ef53228d23ec386f5fe4a34601536f0c891 <47ab3d820cb0a502bd0074f83bb3cf7ab5d79902
- Affected versionversion=11785ef53228d23ec386f5fe4a34601536f0c891 <786571b10b1ae6d90e1242848ce78ee7e1d493c4
- Affected versionversion=11785ef53228d23ec386f5fe4a34601536f0c891 <799c06ad4c9c790c265e8b6b94947213f1fb389c
- Affected versionversion=11785ef53228d23ec386f5fe4a34601536f0c891 <7ef3fd250f84494fb2f7871f357808edaa1fc6ce
- Affected versionversion=11785ef53228d23ec386f5fe4a34601536f0c891 <ae17b3b5e753efc239421d186cd1ff06e5ac296e
- Affected versionversion=11785ef53228d23ec386f5fe4a34601536f0c891 <dfdcbcde5c20df878178245d4449feada7d5b201
- Affected versionversion=11785ef53228d23ec386f5fe4a34601536f0c891 <ecfd41166b72b67d3bdeb88d224ff445f6163869
- Affected versionversion=4.19
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