alsa-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.
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"cna_assigner": "VulnCheck",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-129"
],
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/96xxx/CVE-2026-96675.json"
}{
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"last_affected": "1.2.16.1"
},
{
"fixed": "1.2.16.1"
}
],
"source": [
"AFFECTED_FIELD",
"DESCRIPTION"
]
}