Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published May 8, 2026· Updated May 21, 2026
CVE-2026-43436
CVE-2026-43436
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: usb-audio: Check endpoint numbers at parsing Scarlett2 mixer interfaces
The Scarlett2 mixer quirk in USB-audio driver may hit a NULL dereference when a malformed USB descriptor is passed, since it assumes the presence of an endpoint in the parsed interface in scarlett2_find_fc_interface(), as reported by fuzzer.
For avoiding the NULL dereference, just add the sanity check of bNumEndpoints and skip the invalid interface.
Affected products
5Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
6- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d4f23885e4b90347c9a1d779af6e79a99b5172anvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d542cf3c4c854cdf5d58049771f68926b9eb2b9nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b014cc945baba75816cda0cf8934be87c9ed4947nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b267255c15d2a5b90c4e926146aa155e5161e264nvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c5c5a6c53cf3b658f1d4512dfa61f3cd25bc34banvdPatch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/df1d8abf36ca3681c21a6809eaa9a1e01ef897a6nvdPatch
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