PT-2026-39097
CVE-2026-43436
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Published
2026-05-08
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Updated
2026-10-21
Description by
CVSS 3.1
5.5
MediumMetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)
Description
A NULL dereference can occur in the USB-audio driver's Scarlett2 mixer quirk when processing a malformed USB descriptor. This happens because the
scarlett2 find fc interface() function assumes an endpoint exists in the parsed interface without verification.Recommendations
Apply the update that implements a sanity check for
bNumEndpoints to skip invalid interfaces.Exploitability
Exploit
Fix
Impacts
Vendors
Affected products
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