CVE-2026-72443

What the bug is

MIDI 2.0 input URBs are started during snd_usb_midi_v2_create(). A later setup failure can still jump to snd_usb_midi_v2_free(), which currently frees each endpoint and its coherent URB buffers without first stopping the submitted URBs. A completion can then dereference the embedded URB context and endpoint state after they have been freed, or try to resubmit from the stale endpoint. This was observed as a KASAN slab-use-after-free in input_urb_complete(). The buggy scenario involves two paths, with each column showing the order within that path: probe error path: USB completion path: 1. start_input_streams() submits 1. The HCD still owns a input URBs. submitted input URB. 2. A later setup helper returns 2. input_urb_complete() runs an error. with urb->context in ep. 3. snd_usb_midi_v2_free() frees 3. The completion reads ep endpoint storage and URB buffers. state and can requeue URBs. Make the endpoint destructor follow the same teardown ordering used for disconnect when the endpoint has not already been disconnected: publish ep->disconnected, kill the URBs synchronously, and drain the endpoint before freeing URB buffers and endpoint storage. The guard avoids repeating the stop sequence after the normal snd_usb_midi_v2_disconnect_all() path, while still synchronizing the direct MIDI 2.0 create-error free path. Validation reproduced this kernel report: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in input_urb_complete+0x37/0x1b0 Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x2e/0x50 Read of size 8 Call trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x77/0xb0 print_report+0xce/0x5f0 input_urb_complete+0x37/0x1b0 (sound/usb/midi2.c:186) srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 __virt_addr_valid+0x19f/0x330 kasan_report+0xe0/0x110 __usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x112/0x1d0 dummy_timer+0xaaa/0x19a0 lock_is_held_type+0x9a/0x110 __lock_acquire+0x467/0x28b0 mark_held_locks+0x40/0x70 _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x44/0x60 lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0xbb/0x1a0 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x101/0x520 hrtimer_run_softirq+0xd0/0x130 handle_softirqs+0x15b/0x670 __irq_exit_rcu+0xd0/0x170 irq_exit_rcu+0xe/0x20 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6c/0x80 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20

Where it lives

The fix touches these files. If the subsystem is one you do not use, the practical exposure is lower, though the package is still the vulnerable one.

sound/usb/midi2.c

What this is

SOUNDMAINTAINERS section matched on sound/ · linux-sound@vger.kernel.org · Maintained

Check it on the machine

grep -wE 'CONFIG_SND|CONFIG_SND_USB_AUDIO|CONFIG_SND_USB_AUDIO_MIDI_V2' /boot/config-$(uname -r)

Reads the booted kernel's own configuration, on the machine and nowhere else. =y is built in, =m is a module, and an is not set line means the code is not there.

Show whether Debian builds this, per release

Debian does not build this code in 3 releases. The build rule could not be established for 1 release, so nothing is claimed about those.

• bookworm?
• trixie, forky, sidn

?

not established - no Makefile entry for the affected file

n

not enabled on any flavour - this release does not build the code

Where a release above reads "not established", no build rule for the affected file was found in that release's kernel tree. That is a gap in this lookup, not a finding that the code is absent.

Build switches

CONFIG_SND, CONFIG_SND_USB_AUDIO, CONFIG_SND_USB_AUDIO_MIDI_V2

Reads as

all on means the file is compiled; any one off means it is not.

From the configuration Debian publishes for every kernel flavour it builds. It covers only the architectures Debian ships a linux-config package for, and nothing about a kernel you built yourself. Debian's own status above stays authoritative about the source package.MAINTAINERS kbuild Makefiles Debian linux-config packages

Signals

Published

2026-08-15 (2 months ago)source

CVSS

no vector published, unrated

Attack vector

not published

EPSS

0.21%, higher than 10.3% of all CVEssource

CISA KEV

not listedthe KEV catalogue

Debian urgency

unimportantsource

Subsystem

sound/usb

Upstream fixes

The versions the CNA records as introducing and fixing this, and the commit for each. source

Introduced	Fixed in	Commit
6.5	6.6.145	bcdd5a7363bd
6.5	6.12.97	3d961032a6e5
6.5	6.18.40	4c16176fc11a
6.5	7.1.5	68286258698e
6.5	7.2	f199c8a8bdd5