CVE-2026-53242
ALSA: PCM: Fix wait queue list corruption in snd_pcm_drain() on linked streams
Vexday Risk Score
3Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS —EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
25 Jun 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: PCM: Fix wait queue list corruption in snd_pcm_drain() on linked streams
snd_pcm_drain() uses init_waitqueue_entry which does not clear
entry.prev/next, and add_wait_queue with a conditional
remove_wait_queue that is skipped when to_check is no longer
in the group after concurrent UNLINK. The orphaned wait entry
remains on the unlinked substream sleep queue. On the next
drain iteration, add_wait_queue adds the entry to a new queue
while still linked on the old one, corrupting both lists. A
subsequent wake_up dereferences NULL at the func pointer
(mapped from the spinlock at offset 0 of the misinterpreted
wait_queue_head_t), causing a kernel panic.
Replace init_waitqueue_entry/add_wait_queue/conditional
remove_wait_queue with init_wait_entry/prepare_to_wait/
finish_wait. init_wait_entry clears prev/next via
INIT_LIST_HEAD on each iteration and sets
autoremove_wake_function which auto-removes the entry on
wake-up. finish_wait safely handles both the already-removed
and still-queued cases.
Affected products
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c71a9522555ff137a9ca36b15d759ca04d84788https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/88fe2e3658726cb21ff2dcf9770bf672f9b9d31bhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b053fcd8912f06c30f932f5b8ec41c72de474695https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cac5bf3500ee6422cf64e0df0b5daeecfed42917https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd98837db15f323463b8df07282ac723bd5c3fedhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d68b621bb5a48051932f1017a6e1bc9b18f854d0https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d842f26a167e77a36f3ed333b9fa99d36ef99fe6