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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 15, 2025· Updated Jun 1, 2026

CVE-2025-39997

CVE-2025-39997

Description

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

ALSA: usb-audio: fix race condition to UAF in snd_usbmidi_free

The previous commit 0718a78f6a9f ("ALSA: usb-audio: Kill timer properly at removal") patched a UAF issue caused by the error timer.

However, because the error timer kill added in this patch occurs after the endpoint delete, a race condition to UAF still occurs, albeit rarely.

Additionally, since kill-cleanup for urb is also missing, freed memory can be accessed in interrupt context related to urb, which can cause UAF.

Therefore, to prevent this, error timer and urb must be killed before freeing the heap memory.

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