CVE-2026-98116

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98116
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98116.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-98116
Downstream
Related
Published
2026-09-25T10:36:01Z
Modified
2026-10-09T17:27:01Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
ALSA: pcm: Serialize PCM mmap with buffer reallocation to fix page UAF
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ALSA: pcm: Serialize PCM mmap with buffer reallocation to fix page UAF

snd_pcm_hw_params() and snd_pcm_hw_free() guard buffer reallocation with an mmap_count check performed under the PCM stream lock, but the lock is released long before the buffer is actually freed: snd_pcm_sync_stop(), constraint refinement and do_free_pages() all happen in between. snd_pcm_mmap_data(), on the other hand, takes no lock at all: it validates against the old buffer's state and dma_bytes, remaps its pages into the VMA, and only then increments mmap_count.

A concurrent mmap() can therefore slip in between the check and the free. remap_pfn_range() installs writable PTEs for the old buffer's pages without taking page references, and the subsequent do_free_pages() returns those pages to the page allocator while the VMA still maps them. This leaves a stale, writable mapping of freed pages: a page-level use-after-free that can be leveraged for local privilege escalation.

Make snd_pcm_mmap_data() participate in the buffer-access scheme introduced for hw_params/hw_free: acquire runtime->buffer_accessing before validating and remapping, and release it afterwards. Buffer reallocation already fails with -EBUSY while accessors are active, and the mmap side now fails with -EBUSY while a reallocation is in progress, so the validate/remap sequence and the check/free sequence can no longer interleave.

A reproducer that turns this race into a stale writable mapping of the freed DMA buffer pages is available on request.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner":  "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/98xxx/CVE-2026-98116.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
33061d0fba51d2bf70a2ef9645f703c33fe8e438
Fixed
e6cdd2a0470d64073349a970dc1691433804b271
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
92ee3c60ec9fe64404dc035e7c41277d74aa26cb
Fixed
9857a75714bb5df4781e4d8b1a1753b1e17bf07a
Fixed
cbadf2575d25e7dcc0d4da2717817ae569fbc99b
Fixed
cbc7ec97601d09b74e05e44470fa6b0bcdabf3f5
Fixed
fd137bf8149bc6460f9b7b1fc292025da04cb9ee
Fixed
8c1882dfee8f404d118020664b73eb4592172226
Fixed
9b110a9dcecc59516c77cb3c0caf1f492f75df2d
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5.15.32
Fixed
5.15.222
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
4.14.279
Fixed
4.15
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
4.19.243
Fixed
4.20
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5.4.193
Fixed
5.5
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5.10.109
Fixed
5.11
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5.16.18
Fixed
5.17
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5.17.1
Fixed
5.18
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
a42aa926843acca96c0dfbde2e835b8137f2f092
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
9cb6c40a6ebe4a0cfc9d6a181958211682cffea9
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
fbeb492694ce0441053de57699e1e2b7bc148a69
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
0f6947f5f5208f6ebd4d76a82a4757e2839a23f8
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
0090c13cbbdffd7da079ac56f80373a9a1be0bf8
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
1bbf82d9f961414d6c76a08f7f843ea068e0ab7b

Affected versions

v4.*
v4.14.279
v4.14.280
v4.14.281
v4.14.282
v4.14.283
v4.14.284
v4.14.285
v4.14.286
v4.14.287
v4.14.288
v4.14.289
v4.14.290
v4.14.291
v4.14.292
v4.14.293
v4.14.294
v4.14.295
v4.14.296
v4.14.297
v4.14.298
v4.14.299
v4.14.300
v4.14.301
v4.14.302
v4.14.303
v4.14.304
v4.14.305
v4.14.306
v4.14.307
v4.14.308
v4.14.309
v4.14.310
v4.14.311
v4.14.312
v4.14.313
v4.14.314
v4.14.315
v4.14.316
v4.14.317
v4.14.318
v4.14.319
v4.14.320
v4.14.321
v4.14.322
v4.14.323
v4.14.324
v4.14.325
v4.14.326
v4.14.327
v4.14.328
v4.14.329
v4.14.330
v4.14.331
v4.14.332
v4.14.333
v4.14.334
v4.14.335
v4.14.336
v4.19.243
v4.19.244
v4.19.245
v4.19.246
v4.19.247
v4.19.248
v4.19.249
v4.19.250
v4.19.251
v4.19.252
v4.19.253
v4.19.254
v4.19.255
v4.19.256
v4.19.257
v4.19.258
v4.19.259
v4.19.260
v4.19.261
v4.19.262
v4.19.263
v4.19.264
v4.19.265
v4.19.266
v4.19.267
v4.19.268
v4.19.269
v4.19.270
v4.19.271
v4.19.272
v4.19.273
v4.19.274
v4.19.275
v4.19.276
v4.19.277
v4.19.278
v4.19.279
v4.19.280
v4.19.281
v4.19.282
v4.19.283
v4.19.284
v4.19.285
v4.19.286
v4.19.287
v4.19.288
v4.19.289
v4.19.290
v4.19.291
v4.19.292
v4.19.293
v4.19.294
v4.19.295
v4.19.296
v4.19.297
v4.19.298
v4.19.299
v4.19.300
v4.19.301
v4.19.302
v4.19.303
v4.19.304
v4.19.305
v4.19.306
v4.19.307
v4.19.308
v4.19.309
v4.19.310
v4.19.311
v4.19.312
v4.19.313
v4.19.314
v4.19.315
v4.19.316
v4.19.317
v4.19.318
v4.19.319
v4.19.320
v4.19.321
v4.19.322
v4.19.323
v4.19.324
v4.19.325
v5.*
v5.10.109
v5.10.110
v5.10.111
v5.10.112
v5.10.113
v5.10.114
v5.10.115
v5.10.116
v5.10.117
v5.10.118
v5.10.119
v5.10.120
v5.10.121
v5.10.122
v5.10.123
v5.10.124
v5.10.125
v5.10.126
v5.10.127
v5.10.128
v5.10.129
v5.10.130
v5.10.131
v5.10.132
v5.10.133
v5.10.134
v5.10.135
v5.10.136
v5.10.137
v5.10.138
v5.10.139
v5.10.140
v5.10.141
v5.10.142
v5.10.143
v5.10.144
v5.10.145
v5.10.146
v5.10.147
v5.10.148
v5.10.149
v5.10.150
v5.10.151
v5.10.152
v5.10.153
v5.10.154
v5.10.155
v5.10.156
v5.10.157
v5.10.158
v5.10.159
v5.10.160
v5.10.161
v5.10.162
v5.10.163
v5.10.164
v5.10.165
v5.10.166
v5.10.167
v5.10.168
v5.10.169
v5.10.170
v5.10.171
v5.10.172
v5.10.173
v5.10.174
v5.10.175
v5.10.176
v5.10.177
v5.10.178
v5.10.179
v5.10.180
v5.10.181
v5.10.182
v5.10.183
v5.10.184
v5.10.185
v5.10.186
v5.10.187
v5.10.188
v5.10.189
v5.10.190
v5.10.191
v5.10.192
v5.10.193
v5.10.194
v5.10.195
v5.10.196
v5.10.197
v5.10.198
v5.10.199
v5.10.200
v5.10.201
v5.10.202
v5.10.203
v5.10.204
v5.10.205
v5.10.206
v5.10.207
v5.10.208
v5.10.209
v5.10.210
v5.10.211
v5.10.212
v5.10.213
v5.10.214
v5.10.215
v5.10.216
v5.10.217
v5.10.218
v5.10.219
v5.10.220
v5.10.221
v5.10.222
v5.10.223
v5.10.224
v5.10.225
v5.10.226
v5.10.227
v5.10.228
v5.10.229
v5.10.230
v5.10.231
v5.10.232
v5.10.233
v5.10.234
v5.10.235
v5.10.236
v5.10.237
v5.10.238
v5.10.239
v5.10.240
v5.10.241
v5.10.242
v5.10.243
v5.10.244
v5.10.245
v5.10.246
v5.10.247
v5.10.248
v5.10.249
v5.10.250
v5.10.251
v5.10.252
v5.10.253
v5.10.254
v5.10.255
v5.10.256
v5.10.257
v5.10.258
v5.10.259
v5.10.260
v5.10.261
v5.10.262
v5.10.263
v5.10.264
v5.10.265
v5.10.266
v5.10.267
v5.10.268
v5.10.269
v5.10.270
v5.10.271
v5.15.100
v5.15.101
v5.15.102
v5.15.103
v5.15.104
v5.15.105
v5.15.106
v5.15.107
v5.15.108
v5.15.109
v5.15.110
v5.15.111
v5.15.112
v5.15.113
v5.15.114
v5.15.115
v5.15.116
v5.15.117
v5.15.118
v5.15.119
v5.15.120
v5.15.121
v5.15.122
v5.15.123
v5.15.124
v5.15.125
v5.15.126
v5.15.127
v5.15.128
v5.15.129
v5.15.130
v5.15.131
v5.15.132
v5.15.133
v5.15.134
v5.15.135
v5.15.136
v5.15.137
v5.15.138
v5.15.139
v5.15.140
v5.15.141
v5.15.142
v5.15.143
v5.15.144
v5.15.145
v5.15.146
v5.15.147
v5.15.148
v5.15.149
v5.15.150
v5.15.151
v5.15.152
v5.15.153
v5.15.154
v5.15.155
v5.15.156
v5.15.157
v5.15.158
v5.15.159
v5.15.160
v5.15.161
v5.15.162
v5.15.163
v5.15.164
v5.15.165
v5.15.166
v5.15.167
v5.15.168
v5.15.169
v5.15.170
v5.15.171
v5.15.172
v5.15.173
v5.15.174
v5.15.175
v5.15.176
v5.15.177
v5.15.178
v5.15.179
v5.15.180
v5.15.181
v5.15.182
v5.15.183
v5.15.184
v5.15.185
v5.15.186
v5.15.187
v5.15.188
v5.15.189
v5.15.190
v5.15.191
v5.15.192
v5.15.193
v5.15.194
v5.15.195
v5.15.196
v5.15.197
v5.15.198
v5.15.199
v5.15.200
v5.15.201
v5.15.202
v5.15.203
v5.15.204
v5.15.205
v5.15.206
v5.15.207
v5.15.208
v5.15.209
v5.15.210
v5.15.211
v5.15.212
v5.15.213
v5.15.214
v5.15.215
v5.15.216
v5.15.217
v5.15.218
v5.15.219
v5.15.220
v5.15.221
v5.15.32
v5.15.33
v5.15.34
v5.15.35
v5.15.36
v5.15.37
v5.15.38
v5.15.39
v5.15.40
v5.15.41
v5.15.42
v5.15.43
v5.15.44
v5.15.45
v5.15.46
v5.15.47
v5.15.48
v5.15.49
v5.15.50
v5.15.51
v5.15.52
v5.15.53
v5.15.54
v5.15.55
v5.15.56
v5.15.57
v5.15.58
v5.15.59
v5.15.60
v5.15.61
v5.15.62
v5.15.63
v5.15.64
v5.15.65
v5.15.66
v5.15.67
v5.15.68
v5.15.69
v5.15.70
v5.15.71
v5.15.72
v5.15.73
v5.15.74
v5.15.75
v5.15.76
v5.15.77
v5.15.78
v5.15.79
v5.15.80
v5.15.81
v5.15.82
v5.15.83
v5.15.84
v5.15.85
v5.15.86
v5.15.87
v5.15.88
v5.15.89
v5.15.90
v5.15.91
v5.15.92
v5.15.93
v5.15.94
v5.15.95
v5.15.96
v5.15.97
v5.15.98
v5.15.99
v5.16.18
v5.16.19
v5.16.20
v5.17.1
v5.17.10
v5.17.11
v5.17.12
v5.17.13
v5.17.14
v5.17.15
v5.17.2
v5.17.3
v5.17.4
v5.17.5
v5.17.6
v5.17.7
v5.17.8
v5.17.9
v5.4.193
v5.4.194
v5.4.195
v5.4.196
v5.4.197
v5.4.198
v5.4.199
v5.4.200
v5.4.201
v5.4.202
v5.4.203
v5.4.204
v5.4.205
v5.4.206
v5.4.207
v5.4.208
v5.4.209
v5.4.210
v5.4.211
v5.4.212
v5.4.213
v5.4.214
v5.4.215
v5.4.216
v5.4.217
v5.4.218
v5.4.219
v5.4.220
v5.4.221
v5.4.222
v5.4.223
v5.4.224
v5.4.225
v5.4.226
v5.4.227
v5.4.228
v5.4.229
v5.4.230
v5.4.231
v5.4.232
v5.4.233
v5.4.234
v5.4.235
v5.4.236
v5.4.237
v5.4.238
v5.4.239
v5.4.240
v5.4.241
v5.4.242
v5.4.243
v5.4.244
v5.4.245
v5.4.246
v5.4.247
v5.4.248
v5.4.249
v5.4.250
v5.4.251
v5.4.252
v5.4.253
v5.4.254
v5.4.255
v5.4.256
v5.4.257
v5.4.258
v5.4.259
v5.4.260
v5.4.261
v5.4.262
v5.4.263
v5.4.264
v5.4.265
v5.4.266
v5.4.267
v5.4.268
v5.4.269
v5.4.270
v5.4.271
v5.4.272
v5.4.273
v5.4.274
v5.4.275
v5.4.276
v5.4.277
v5.4.278
v5.4.279
v5.4.280
v5.4.281
v5.4.282
v5.4.283
v5.4.284
v5.4.285
v5.4.286
v5.4.287
v5.4.288
v5.4.289
v5.4.290
v5.4.291
v5.4.292
v5.4.293
v5.4.294
v5.4.295
v5.4.296
v5.4.297
v5.4.298
v5.4.299
v5.4.300
v5.4.301
v5.4.302

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98116.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.15.222
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.189
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.18.0
Fixed
6.6.158
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.12.111
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.18.53
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
7.2.7

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98116.json"