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Advisory severityHigh7.0Vendor: MediumRed Hat Linux

High [CVE-2026-53192] Fix UAF at snd_timer_user_params

This high-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-53192 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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CVE-2026-53192
Affected products & platforms
Red Hat LinuxLinux Kernel
Open source advisory

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: timer: Fix UAF at snd_timer_user_params() At releasing a timer object, e.g. when a userspace timer (CONFIG_SND_UTIMER) gets closed and snd_timer_free() is called, it tries to detach the timer instances and release the resources.

However, it's still possible that other in-flight tasks are holding the timer instance where the to-be-deleted timer object is associated, and this may lead to racy accesses. Fortunately, most of ioctls dealing with the timer instance list already have the protection with register_mutex, and this also avoids such races.

But, SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_PARAMS isn't protected, hence the concurrent ioctl may lead to use-after-free. This patch just adds the guard with register_mutex to protect snd_timer_user_params() for covering the code path as a quick workaround.

It's no hot-path but rather a rarely issued ioctl, so the performance penalty doesn't matter. A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) timer component.

A race condition can occur during the release of a timer object, specifically when the SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_PARAMS ioctl is called concurrently. This can lead to a use-after-free vulnerability, potentially allowing a local attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution or cause a denial of service.

Is CVE-2026-53192 exploited?

No exploitation is reported in the sources VulniPulse tracks: CVE-2026-53192 is not in the CISA KEV catalog (checked ) and this advisory does not report exploitation. That is not proof the vulnerability cannot be exploited.

How do I fix CVE-2026-53192?

Upgrade to a fixed release named by Red Hat:

  • kernel-0:6.12.0-211.56.1.el10_2
  • kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.164.1.rt7.505.el8_10
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-553.164.1.el8_10
  • kernel-0:5.14.0-687.49.1.el9_8
  • RHSA-2026:68507
  • RHSA-2026:68532
  • RHSA-2026:68531
  • RHSA-2026:68570

Confirm against the vendor advisory before you patch.

Affected versions

No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative. Check it before change work.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 15 days ago·verify at source

Fixed versions
  • kernel-0:6.12.0-211.56.1.el10_2
  • kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.164.1.rt7.505.el8_10
  • kernel-0:4.18.0-553.164.1.el8_10
  • kernel-0:5.14.0-687.49.1.el9_8
  • RHSA-2026:68507
  • RHSA-2026:68532
  • RHSA-2026:68531
  • RHSA-2026:68570

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 15 days ago·verify at source

Mitigation

Upgrade to a fixed release: kernel-0:6.12.0-211.56.1.el10_2, kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.164.1.rt7.505.el8_10, kernel-0:4.18.0-553.164.1.el8_10, kernel-0:5.14.0-687.49.1.el9_8, RHSA-2026:68507, RHSA-2026:68532. That is the remediation for this advisory.

The vendor advisory may list interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here. Review it before change work.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 15 days ago·verify at source

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