CVE-2026-23318

high

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usb-audio: Use correct version for UAC3 header validation The entry of the validators table for UAC3 AC header descriptor is defined with the wrong protocol version UAC_VERSION_2, while it should have been UAC_VERSION_3. This results in the validator never matching for actual UAC3 devices (protocol == UAC_VERSION_3), causing their header descriptors to bypass validation entirely. A malicious USB device presenting a truncated UAC3 header could exploit this to cause out-of-bounds reads when the driver later accesses unvalidated descriptor fields. The bug was introduced in the same commit as the recently fixed UAC3 feature unit sub-type typo, and appears to be from the same copy-paste error when the UAC3 section was created from the UAC2 section.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3904ca40515272681ae61ad6f561c24f190957f

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0c6ae2ea84528f198bf7fd0117f12fd0cf6d7cc

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/54f9d645a5453d0bfece0c465d34aaf072ea99fa

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/499ffd15b00dc91ac95c28f76959dfb5cdcc84d5

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e5753ff4c2e86aa88516f97a224c90a3d0b133e

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dcd1ed96c03459cf14706885c9dd3c1fd8bd29f

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-03-25

Updated: 2026-03-25

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00024