# CVE-2026-74641: ALSA: usx2y: bound the hwdep mmap fault offset

> A local attacker with access to the US-X2Y hardware device can read or write arbitrary kernel memory via a missing bounds check in the ALSA driver, leading to privilege escalation or system crash.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 22 Aug 2026
- **Updated:** 16 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2026-74641, DEBIAN-CVE-2026-74641, GHSA-mrvc-mw2v-9ww4, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-74641

## What is CVE-2026-74641?

CVE-2026-74641 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux, published on 22 Aug 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:

ALSA: usx2y: bound the hwdep mmap fault offset

snd_us428ctls_vm_fault() turns the faulting page offset into a kernel
address with no bound of any kind:

	offset = vmf->pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT;
	vaddr = (char *)(...)->us428ctls_sharedmem + offset;
	page = virt_to_page(vaddr);
	get_page(page);
	vmf->page = page;

	return 0;

snd_us428ctls_mmap() checks only the length of the mapping, never the
offset, and us428ctls_sharedmem is a single page from
alloc_pages_exact().  For a character device file_mmap_size_max()
returns ULONG_MAX, so the mm layer imposes no ceiling either.  Every page
offset above zero resolves to a struct page outside the object, and the
handler installs it into the caller's address space read-write; the vma
is not marked read-only.

The caller picks the page frame with a single mmap() argument and gets
read-write access to a page of kernel memory it does not own; an offset
that lands in an unpopulated vmemmap region oopses instead.

A process that can open the hwdep node of an attached US-X2Y reaches
this after loading the FPGA image through the same node; no capability
check is involved.

On 7.2.0-rc5 (arm64), mmap() with a large offset:

  Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffffdffc45d5ac8
  pc : snd_us428ctls_vm_fault+0x68/0x140 [snd_usb_usx2y]
  Call trace:
   snd_us428ctls_vm_fault+0x68/0x140 [snd_usb_usx2y]
   __do_fault
   __handle_mm_fault
   handle_mm_fault
   el0_da

Reject any offset outside the shared region.  The pcm hwdep handler in
usx2yhwdeppcm.c computes its address the same way and needs the same
bound.

Discovered by XBOW, triaged by Baul Lee <baul.lee@xbow.com>

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-74641?


## How do I fix CVE-2026-74641?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2026-74641 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-74641 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-74641 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-74641 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux, published on 22 Aug 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-74641 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-74641/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-74641/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74641
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-74641
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-74641

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