CVE-2026-96675

NameCVE-2026-96675
Descriptionalsa-lib through 1.2.16.1 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the multi PCM plugin that fails to validate sparse binding indices before array access. Attackers can supply a malicious ALSA configuration file with sparse bindings to trigger an out-of-bounds array read and assertion failure, causing the application to abort.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
alsa-lib (PTS)bookworm1.2.8-1vulnerable
trixie1.2.14-1+deb13u1vulnerable
forky, sid1.2.16.1-1vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
alsa-libsource(unstable)(unfixed)

Notes

https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib/pull/527

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