CVE-2026-64487

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

ALSA: caiaq: fix out-of-bounds read in the Traktor Kontrol S4 input parser

snd_usb_caiaq_tks4_dispatch() decodes the Traktor Kontrol S4 input stream in fixed 16-byte (TKS4_MSGBLOCK_SIZE) message blocks. On every iteration it advances buf and subtracts the block size while looping on while (len).

len is urb->actual_length. That value is supplied by the device and is not guaranteed to be a multiple of 16. When a final short block leaves len between 1 and 15, the loop runs once more, reads up to buf[15], and then does len -= TKS4_MSGBLOCK_SIZE. As len is unsigned this underflows to a huge value. The loop then keeps iterating and walking buf far past the end of the 512-byte ep4_in_buf, reading out of bounds until a bogus block id happens to be hit.

Iterate only while a full message block is available. This stops the unsigned underflow and silently drops any trailing partial block, which carries no complete control value anyway.

The sibling endpoint-4 parsers are not affected. The Traktor Kontrol X1 and Maschine arms in snd_usb_caiaq_ep4_reply_dispatch() floor urb->actual_length before dispatching.

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05df59b9a61f7ca66548df079d306c41da23845d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0680413f2f10aab43878dd3db711a6a9e45bab7c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3cad86197c7bf8b45bb1d8adc1099d0913e80469
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70d6d4cfa4ad09688aed2ec8a0cfa72c31f60334
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/884f575cc6acb136eb4a161d925147f85b59c27e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5fd3122283bf75c04f6414bf610100beb0565b0
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de5f9edc705497b1b2c6b173b22f283486d2fd91
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7f3f9fd81e7adbaa12c2e62ee07f0e094a543fd