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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-96675

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 arra...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 alsa-lib

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

Debian:13 alsa-lib

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

Debian:14 alsa-lib

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org