linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-39765: ALSA: timer: fix ida

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Message-ID: <2025091143-CVE-2025-39765-5eac@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 18:56:44 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-39765: ALSA: timer: fix ida_free call while not allocated

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ALSA: timer: fix ida_free call while not allocated

In the snd_utimer_create() function, if the kasprintf() function return
NULL, snd_utimer_put_id() will be called, finally use ida_free()
to free the unallocated id 0.

the syzkaller reported the following information:
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  ida_free called for id=0 which is not allocated.
  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1286 at lib/idr.c:592 ida_free+0x1fd/0x2f0 lib/idr.c:592
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1286 Comm: syz-executor164 Not tainted 6.15.8 #3 PREEMPT(lazy)
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-4.fc42 04/01/2014
  RIP: 0010:ida_free+0x1fd/0x2f0 lib/idr.c:592
  Code: f8 fc 41 83 fc 3e 76 69 e8 70 b2 f8 (...)
  RSP: 0018:ffffc900007f79c8 EFLAGS: 00010282
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 1ffff920000fef3b RCX: ffffffff872176a5
  RDX: ffff88800369d200 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88800369d200
  RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffffff87ba60a5 R09: 0000000000000000
  R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
  R13: 0000000000000002 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
  FS:  00007f6f1abc1740(0000) GS:ffff8880d76a0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 00007f6f1ad7a784 CR3: 000000007a6e2000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   snd_utimer_put_id sound/core/timer.c:2043 [inline] [snd_timer]
   snd_utimer_create+0x59b/0x6a0 sound/core/timer.c:2184 [snd_timer]
   snd_utimer_ioctl_create sound/core/timer.c:2202 [inline] [snd_timer]
   __snd_timer_user_ioctl.isra.0+0x724/0x1340 sound/core/timer.c:2287 [snd_timer]
   snd_timer_user_ioctl+0x75/0xc0 sound/core/timer.c:2298 [snd_timer]
   vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
   __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline]
   __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:893 [inline]
   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x198/0x200 fs/ioctl.c:893
   do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
   do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x160 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
  [...]

The utimer->id should be set properly before the kasprintf() function,
ensures the snd_utimer_put_id() function will free the allocated id.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-39765 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.12 with commit 37745918e0e7575bc40f38da93a99b9fa6406224 and fixed in 6.12.44 with commit 34327b362ce2849a5eb02f47e800049e7a20a0ba
	Issue introduced in 6.12 with commit 37745918e0e7575bc40f38da93a99b9fa6406224 and fixed in 6.16.4 with commit af386b52531d14c4b20f11c452787b1b6dd4eb8d
	Issue introduced in 6.12 with commit 37745918e0e7575bc40f38da93a99b9fa6406224 and fixed in 6.17-rc3 with commit 5003a65790ed66be882d1987cc2ca86af0de3db1

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-39765
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	sound/core/timer.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34327b362ce2849a5eb02f47e800049e7a20a0ba
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af386b52531d14c4b20f11c452787b1b6dd4eb8d
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5003a65790ed66be882d1987cc2ca86af0de3db1