CVE-2026-99068 (GCVE-0-2026-99068)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-23 12:23
Modified
2026-10-23 12:23
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: ctxfi: Fix memory leakage when clearing DAO input mappers Commit e576e7843c0d ("ALSA: ctxfi: Simplify dao_clear_{left,right}_input() functions") centralized the DAO input mapper clearing logic in dao_clear_input(), but omitted the kfree() calls. It removes the mapper entries from the list and sets their pointers to NULL without freeing the allocated array. This leaks memory each time dao_clear_input() is called. Store the base pointer of the allocation before clearing the mapper entries and free the array after removing entries from the list.
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Linux Linux Version: e576e7843c0d65b82d4092e5b386d9fbf5bc10c3
Version: e576e7843c0d65b82d4092e5b386d9fbf5bc10c3
Version: e576e7843c0d65b82d4092e5b386d9fbf5bc10c3
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