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CVE-2026-80971

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Sep 11, 2026Sources checked Nov 3, 2026
7.8HIGHCVSS out of 10
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CVE-2026-80971 and is rated High severity with a CVSS score of 7.8. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog
EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability
Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field
Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships
Overview

What is CVE-2026-80971?

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

ALSA: bcd2000: clear the URB pointers on disconnect

bcd2000_free_usb_related_resources() frees both URBs and leaves the pointers behind:

usb_kill_urb(bcd2k->midi_out_urb); usb_kill_urb(bcd2k->midi_in_urb);

usb_free_urb(bcd2k->midi_out_urb); usb_free_urb(bcd2k->midi_in_urb);

The rawmidi device outlives that call. A substream that is still open when the device is unplugged reaches bcd2000_midi_send() from the trigger path on close.

That function writes to the freed URB and then hands it to the USB core:

bcd2k->midi_out_urb->transfer_buffer_length = BUFSIZE; ... ret = usb_submit_urb(bcd2k->midi_out_urb, GFP_ATOMIC);

usb_kill_urb() does not stop a later submission either, so a submit that races the disconnect can requeue the URB after it has been reaped. midi_in_urb is exposed the same way: bcd2000_input_complete() resubmits it from the completion handler.

KASAN on 7.2.0-rc5 (arm64):

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in bcd2000_midi_send [snd_bcd2000] Write of size 4 at addr ffff00001827d388 by task bpoc/168 __asan_store4 bcd2000_midi_send [snd_bcd2000] bcd2000_midi_output_trigger [snd_bcd2000] snd_rawmidi_kernel_write1 close_substream.part.0 Freed by task 168: usb_free_urb bcd2000_disconnect [snd_bcd2000]

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in usb_submit_urb Read of size 8 at addr ffff00001827d3b8 by task bpoc/168

Clear both pointers after freeing and test them on the paths that can still run. Poison the URBs before freeing them: usb_poison_urb() waits for a running completion handler and rejects any later submission, so after it returns the input path is quiesced and only the rawmidi trigger path can still reach bcd2000_midi_send().

No unpoison is needed; the URBs are freed on the next line.

Discovered by XBOW, triaged by Baul Lee <baul.lee@xbow.com>

Source: NVD