From 1035a8f63bae28e498b0e7b5ac91d749844a7158 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marouane El Moufid Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:55:48 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: usb-audio: fix OOB write in snd_usbmidi_novation_output() snd_usbmidi_novation_output() lays out a two-byte header at transfer_buffer[0..1] and passes &transfer_buffer[2] together with a length of ep->max_transfer - 2 to snd_rawmidi_transmit(): count = snd_rawmidi_transmit(ep->ports[0].substream, &transfer_buffer[2], ep->max_transfer - 2); ep->max_transfer comes from the output endpoint's wMaxPacketSize via usb_maxpacket(). A malformed or malicious device can advertise a bulk OUT endpoint with a wMaxPacketSize of 1 - the USB core only clamps this value downwards - so ep->max_transfer becomes 1 and the count argument becomes -1. snd_rawmidi_transmit() passes the negative count on to __snd_rawmidi_transmit_peek(), where "if (count1 > count) count1 = count" leaves count1 negative; get_aligned_size() keeps it negative for a byte-stream substream, so the following memcpy(buffer, ..., count1) runs with a (size_t)-1 length and writes far past the transfer buffer, which was allocated with usb_alloc_coherent(ep->max_transfer). This is the same class of bug that was fixed for snd_usbmidi_akai_output() in commit 0970274613fb ("ALSA: usb-audio: fix OOB write in snd_usbmidi_akai_output()"); the novation output routine was left unguarded. Bail out when the endpoint cannot hold the two-byte header plus at least one payload byte. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Marouane El Moufid Link: https://patch.msgid.link/178749334830.543645.13722252148340572274@espilon.net Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai --- sound/usb/midi.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/sound/usb/midi.c b/sound/usb/midi.c index f8996416c3be..8a9bc37f0b6e 100644 --- a/sound/usb/midi.c +++ b/sound/usb/midi.c @@ -875,6 +875,8 @@ static void snd_usbmidi_novation_output(struct snd_usb_midi_out_endpoint *ep, if (!ep->ports[0].active) return; + if (ep->max_transfer < 3) + return; transfer_buffer = urb->transfer_buffer; count = snd_rawmidi_transmit(ep->ports[0].substream, &transfer_buffer[2],