{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-31778 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-31778 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 1 May 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-31778 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-31778 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 1 May 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-31778 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-31778/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-31778/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-31778","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-31778/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-31778","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2026-31778","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-31778","GHSA-87f3-mhhq-wfvx","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2026-31778","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2026-31778","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2026-31778","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-31778"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_read","denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A stack out-of-bounds read in the Linux kernel ALSA caiaq driver allows attackers with physical access to leak stack memory or cause a crash via a malicious USB device.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":7.1,"severity":"high","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-125","name":"Out-of-bounds Read"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: caiaq: fix stack out-of-bounds read in init_card\n\nThe loop creates a whitespace-stripped copy of the card shortname\nwhere `len \u003c sizeof(card-\u003eid)` is used for the bounds check. Since\nsizeof(card-\u003eid) is 16 and the local id buffer is also 16 bytes,\nwriting 16 non-space characters fills the entire buffer,\noverwriting the terminating nullbyte.\n\nWhen this non-null-terminated string is later passed to\nsnd_card_set_id() -\u003e copy_valid_id_string(), the function scans\nforward with `while (*nid \u0026\u0026 ...)` and reads past the end of the\nstack buffer, reading the contents of the stack.\n\nA USB device with a product name containing many non-ASCII, non-space\ncharacters (e.g. multibyte UTF-8) will reliably trigger this as follows:\n\n  BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in copy_valid_id_string\n       sound/core/init.c:696 [inline]\n  BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in snd_card_set_id_no_lock+0x698/0x74c\n       sound/core/init.c:718\n\nThe off-by-one has been present since commit bafeee5b1f8d (\"ALSA:\nsnd_usb_caiaq: give better shortname\") from June 2009 (v2.6.31-rc1),\nwhich first introduced this whitespace-stripping loop. The original\ncode never accounted for the null terminator when bounding the copy.\n\nFix this by changing the loop bound to `sizeof(card-\u003eid) - 1`,\nensuring at least one byte remains as the null terminator.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"ALSA: caiaq: fix stack out-of-bounds read in init_card","id":"CVE-2026-31778","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix potential out-of-bounds read in iwl_mvm_nd_match_info_handler()","id":"CVE-2026-31779"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"ALSA: ctxfi: Check the error for index mapping","id":"CVE-2026-31777"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-05-01","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A stack out-of-bounds read in the Linux kernel ALSA caiaq driver allows attackers with physical access to leak stack memory or cause a crash via a malicious USB device.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-31778/"}