CVE-2025-38105

Published: July 4, 2025Last modified: July 4, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usb-audio: Kill timer properly at removal The USB-audio MIDI code initializes the timer, but in a rare case, the driver might be freed without the disconnect call. This leaves the timer in an active state while the assigned object is released via snd_usbmidi_free(), which ends up with a kernel warning when the debug configuration is enabled, as spotted by fuzzer. For avoiding the problem, put timer_shutdown_sync() at snd_usbmidi_free(), so that the timer can be killed properly. While we're at it, replace the existing timer_delete_sync() at the disconnect callback with timer_shutdown_sync(), too.

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References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0718a78f6a9f04b88d0dc9616cc216b31c5f3cf1
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62066758d2ae169278e5d6aea5995b1b6f6ddeb5