vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2023-54072): linux vulnerability

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 24, 2025
Added
Jan 6, 2026
Modified
Jan 27, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: pcm: Fix potential data race at PCM memory allocation helpers The PCM memory allocation helpers have a sanity check against too many buffer allocations. However, the check is performed without a proper lock and the allocation isn't serialized; this allows user to allocate more memories than predefined max size. Practically seen, this isn't really a big problem, as it's more or less some "soft limit" as a sanity check, and it's not possible to allocate unlimitedly. But it's still better to address this for more consistent behavior. The patch covers the size check in do_alloc_pages() with the card->memory_mutex, and increases the allocated size there for preventing the further overflow. When the actual allocation fails, the size is decreased accordingly.

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