CVE-2026-72403: ALSA: FCP: Fix NULL pointer dereference in interface lookup

Published Aug 15, 2026
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Updated

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

ALSA: FCP: Fix NULL pointer dereference in interface lookup

A malformed USB device can provide a vendor-specific interface without any endpoint descriptors. fcpfindfcinterface() currently selects the first vendor-specific interface and reads endpoint 0 from it, without checking whether the interface actually has any endpoints.

When bNumEndpoints is zero, no endpoint array is allocated for the parsed alternate setting, so getendpoint(..., 0) yields an invalid endpoint descriptor pointer. Dereferencing it through usbendpointnum() then triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Skip vendor-specific interfaces that do not have any endpoints.

Affected Software

1 affected component
Linux Kernel

Event History

Aug 15, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·05:56 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·05:56 AM
Description
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