CVE-2026-98116

Reference list NVD curates from the CNA record, vendor advisories, and third-party reports. The tag chips below are NVD's analyst-assigned categories.

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c1882dfee8f404d118020664b73eb4592172226 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b110a9dcecc59516c77cb3c0caf1f492f75df2d 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cbc7ec97601d09b74e05e44470fa6b0bcdabf3f5 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd137bf8149bc6460f9b7b1fc292025da04cb9ee 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

The full cvelistV5 record. Download as CVE-2026-98116.json.

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          "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: pcm: Serialize PCM mmap with buffer reallocation to fix page UAF\n\nsnd_pcm_hw_params() and snd_pcm_hw_free() guard buffer reallocation\nwith an mmap_count check performed under the PCM stream lock, but the\nlock is released long before the buffer is actually freed:\nsnd_pcm_sync_stop(), constraint refinement and do_free_pages() all\nhappen in between.  snd_pcm_mmap_data(), on the other hand, takes no\nlock at all: it validates against the old buffer's state and\ndma_bytes, remaps its pages into the VMA, and only then increments\nmmap_count.\n\nA concurrent mmap() can therefore slip in between the check and the\nfree.  remap_pfn_range() installs writable PTEs for the old buffer's\npages without taking page references, and the subsequent\ndo_free_pages() returns those pages to the page allocator while the\nVMA still maps them.  This leaves a stale, writable mapping of freed\npages: a page-level use-after-free that can be leveraged for local\nprivilege escalation.\n\nMake snd_pcm_mmap_data() participate in the buffer-access scheme\nintroduced for hw_params/hw_free: acquire runtime->buffer_accessing\nbefore validating and remapping, and release it afterwards.  Buffer\nreallocation already fails with -EBUSY while accessors are active,\nand the mmap side now fails with -EBUSY while a reallocation is in\nprogress, so the validate/remap sequence and the check/free sequence\ncan no longer interleave.\n\nA reproducer that turns this race into a stale writable mapping of\nthe freed DMA buffer pages is available on request."
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            "baseSeverity": "HIGH",
            "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
            "version": "3.1"
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              "value": "AV:L - The bug is triggered by mmap() on a local /dev/snd/pcmC*D* file descriptor (snd_pcm_mmap -> snd_pcm_mmap_data) racing with SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS/HW_FREE ioctls on the same fd. No remote protocol carries any of the inputs.\nAC:L - One process controls both sides of the race: one thread calls mmap() and another calls hw_free/hw_params. The window runs from the mmap_count check under the stream lock through snd_pcm_sync_stop and refinement to do_free_pages, and the attacker can retry as often as needed.\nPR:L - Opening the PCM device node takes ordinary local user access, either the audio group or the udev uaccess ACL given to the logged-in seat user. No capability is checked on the mmap or hw_params/hw_free paths.\nUI:N - The attacker opens the device, sets hw_params and races the mmap against hw_free entirely through their own syscalls. No other user has to do anything.\nS:U - This is a local kernel privilege escalation within the same kernel security authority. It crosses no VM or IOMMU boundary.\nC:H - remap_pfn_range installs PTEs for the old DMA buffer pages without taking page references, and do_free_pages then frees them. The attacker keeps a direct mapping of whatever the page allocator reuses those pages for, such as page tables, cred or slab pages, and can read it.\nI:H - The stale mapping of the freed buffer pages is writable, which gives direct write access to reallocated kernel pages. This is a page-level UAF that enables privilege escalation, as the fix commit itself states.\nA:H - Writing through the stale PTEs into pages that have been reallocated corrupts arbitrary kernel memory, which leads to oopses, panics or page-state BUGs."
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        "dateUpdated": "2026-09-25T14:42:08.633Z",
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    "cveId": "CVE-2026-98116",
    "datePublished": "2026-09-25T10:36:01.723Z",
    "dateReserved": "2026-09-25T10:25:14.317Z",
    "dateUpdated": "2026-09-25T14:42:08.633Z",
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