CVE-2025-68783 json
ALSA: usb-mixer: us16x08: validate meter packet indices
published 2026-01-13 9 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2026-2325
- cvss
- —
- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 10%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: usb-mixer: us16x08: validate meter packet indices
get_meter_levels_from_urb() parses the 64-byte meter packets sent by the device and fills the per-channel arrays meter_level[], comp_level[] and master_level[] in struct snd_us16x08_meter_store.
Currently the function derives the channel index directly from the meter packet (MUB2(meter_urb, s) - 1) and uses it to index those arrays without validating the range. If the packet contains a negative or out-of-range channel number, the driver may write past the end of these arrays.
Introduce a local channel variable and validate it before updating the arrays. We reject negative indices, limit meter_level[] and comp_level[] to SND_US16X08_MAX_CHANNELS, and guard master_level[] updates with ARRAY_SIZE(master_level).
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 5.10.248, 5.15.198, 6.1.160, 6.6.120, 6.12.64, 6.18.3, 6.19
- linux Debian 12 6.1.162-1
- linux Debian 13 6.12.69-1
- linux Debian 14 6.18.3-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68783
- linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-173.183
- linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-110.110
- linux Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-22.22
- linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1103.110
- linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1052.55
- linux-aws Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1012.12
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1103.112
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1054.57
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68783
Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0
- kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-40.1
- kernel-source-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-40.1
- kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.2 6.12.0-160000.26.1
- kernel-64kb SLES 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 6.12.0-160000.26.1
- kernel-source SLES 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 6.12.0-160000.26.1
- kernel-default SLES 16.0, SLE High Availability Extension 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2 +1 more 6.12.0-160000.26.1
- kernel-default-base SLES 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 6.12.0-160000.26.1.160000.2.7
- kernel-syms SLES 16.0, Linux Micro Extras 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 6.12.0-160000.26.1
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:20845-1SUSE-SU-2026:20876-1SUSE-SU-2026:20555-1SUSE-SU-2026:20599-1SUSE-SU-2026:20615-1SUSE-SU-2026:20570-1
- kernel-rt openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.26.1
- dtb-aarch64 openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.26.1
- kernel-64kb openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.26.1
- kernel-syms openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.26.1
- kernel-azure openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.26.1
- kernel-obs-qa openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.26.1
- kernel-source openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.26.1
- kernel-default openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.26.1
opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:20287-1
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/53461710a95e15ac1f6542450943a492ecf8e550 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/2168866396bd28ec4f3c8da0fbc7d08b5bd4f053 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/cde47f4ccad6751ac36b7471572ddf38ee91870c commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f21a7cbaaa93926f5be15bc095b9c57c35748d9 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8ad320efb663be30b794e3dd3e829301c0d0ed3 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/eaa95228b8a56c4880a182c0350d67922b22408f commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/5526c1c6ba1d0913c7dfcbbd6fe1744ea7c55f1e commit
Vendor advisories
What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2025-68783 updated cvss 5.5
kernel: ALSA: usb-mixer: us16x08: validate meter packet indices
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernelaffected: no fix available
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 morenot affected: vulnerable code not present
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
Exploit prediction
0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/53461710a95e15ac1f6542450943a492ecf8e550
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/2168866396bd28ec4f3c8da0fbc7d08b5bd4f053
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/cde47f4ccad6751ac36b7471572ddf38ee91870c
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/2f21a7cbaaa93926f5be15bc095b9c57c35748d9
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/a8ad320efb663be30b794e3dd3e829301c0d0ed3
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/eaa95228b8a56c4880a182c0350d67922b22408f
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/5526c1c6ba1d0913c7dfcbbd6fe1744ea7c55f1e
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2025-68783
- NVD CVE-2025-68783
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