CVE-2026-23301 ASoC: SDCA: Add allocation failure check for Entity name

What is CVE-2026-23301?

CVE-2026-23301 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 25 Mar 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

ASoC: SDCA: Add allocation failure check for Entity name

Currently find_sdca_entity_iot() can allocate a string for the Entity name but it doesn't check if that allocation succeeded. Add the missing NULL check after the allocation.

Weakness: CWE-252

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-23301?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2026-23301?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2026-23301 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-23301 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23301, GHSA-hjww-hmp9-xppj, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-23301.