CVE-2026-98308

What the bug is

Stream assignment can fail when hardware streams are exhausted. Move the tracepoint after the NULL check because its payload accesses the assigned stream tag. Detected by static analysis and reviewed with AI-assisted source auditing.

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/hda/common/controller.c

What this is

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

Kernel module

snd_hda_codec

Check it on the machine

grep -wE 'CONFIG_SND|CONFIG_SND_HDA' /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.

lsmod | grep -w snd_hda_codec

Prints a line if that module is loaded right now, and nothing if it is not. One that is not loaded can still be loaded later by anything that needs it.

Show whether Debian builds this, per release

Debian builds this, but not on every flavour. At least one release below builds the code on some of its kernel flavours and not on others, so the answer depends on the architecture and flavour installed. The build rule could not be established for 2 releases, so nothing is claimed about those.

• bookworm, trixie?
• forky, sidMnot built on amd64/cloud-amd64, arm64/cloud-arm64, s390x/s390x

?

not established - no Makefile entry for the affected file

M

a module where it is built at all; some flavours do not build it

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_HDA

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

2026-10-06 (13 days ago)source

CVSS

no vector published, unrated

Attack vector

not published

EPSS

0.18%, higher than 7.5% of all CVEssource

CISA KEV

not listedthe KEV catalogue

Debian urgency

not yet assignedsource

Subsystem

sound/hda

Upstream fixes

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

Introduced	Fixed in	Commit
4.2	5.10.271	5a4c974dee03
4.2	5.15.222	fba079ea2282
4.2	6.1.189	3c6ca6d9342f
4.2	6.6.158	0a52ba6d3b26
4.2	6.12.112	5c89e7965220
4.2	6.18.54	8477643cb91c
4.2	7.2.8	3db8afba2d21
4.2	7.3	c9e6e5f38bf7

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