Advisories

alsa-lib 1.2.15.2 Topology Decoder Heap-based Buffer Overflow

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severity
medium
date
Affecting
  • alsa-lib 1.2.2 - 1.2.15.2, prior to commit 5f7fe33

CWE
  • CWE-129 Improper Validation of Array Index
CVSS
4.6
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
Sajeeb Lohani (sml555 / prodigysml)
Description
alsa-lib versions 1.2.2 up to and including 1.2.15.2, prior to commit 5f7fe33, contain a heap-based buffer overflow in the topology mixer control decoder. The tplg_decode_control_mixer1() function reads the num_channels field from untrusted .tplg data and uses it as a loop bound without validating it against the fixed-size channel array (SND_TPLG_MAX_CHAN). A crafted topology file with an excessive num_channels value can cause out-of-bounds heap writes, leading to a crash.