CVE-2026-43279

HIGHNVD 7.87.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 7.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-05-06. NVD baseline CVSS 7.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
7.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.2%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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

ALSA: usb-audio: Add sanity check for OOB writes at silencing

At silencing the playback URB packets in the implicit fb mode before the actual playback, we blindly assume that the received packets fit with the buffer size. But when the setup in the capture stream differs from the playback stream (e.g. due to the USB core limitation of max packet size), such an inconsistency may lead to OOB writes to the buffer, resulting in a crash.

For addressing it, add a sanity check of the transfer buffer size at prepare_silent_urb(), and stop the data copy if the received data overflows. Also, report back the transfer error properly from there, too.

Note that this doesn't fix the root cause of the playback error itself, but this merely covers the kernel Oops.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
7.8HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
35
EG Risk 35/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity78% × 45%
The EG Score, 7.8 of 10.
Exploitation0.2% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
6th
KEV
Not listed

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

May 6, 2026

Last Modified

August 5, 2026

Advisory Details (7)

Auto-updated May 8, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

ALSA: usb-audio: Add sanity check for OOB writes at silencing - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc9e5af60dc199051dc202ae78e1fe76a9977a5e
Web page

ALSA: usb-audio: Add sanity check for OOB writes at silencing - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fba2105a157fffcf19825e4eea498346738c9948
Web page

ALSA: usb-audio: Add sanity check for OOB writes at silencing - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa01973bb79d70c4736b6a4b2de99fbb2cbc8d1f
Web page

ALSA: usb-audio: Add sanity check for OOB writes at silencing - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ccaf9296763be4f76b59e2cac377006016c34435
Web page

ALSA: usb-audio: Add sanity check for OOB writes at silencing - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8995fc0e00b3fee9bf7ecb3d836b635b730c1049
Web page

ALSA: usb-audio: Add sanity check for OOB writes at silencing - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/780dc57794a217b49994fa1d0b42465fb10a00aa
Web page

ALSA: usb-audio: Add sanity check for OOB writes at silencing - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6af16f1b8649df4c00d6ced924bdd8b72c885b6a

Patch Availability(31)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntulinux-tools-oracle-lts-22.04 (5.15.0.1109.105) @ jammy2026-08-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-fde-6.8 (6.8.0-1062.69~22.04.1) @ jammy2026-08-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-fde-lts-24.04 (6.8.0-1062.69) @ noble2026-08-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-oracle-edge (5.15.0.1109.115~20.04.1) @ focal2026-08-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-fips-5.15 (5.15.0.1117.102) @ jammy2026-08-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-nvidia-tegra-rt-5.15 (5.15.0.1064.64) @ jammy2026-08-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-intel-iot-realtime-5.15 (5.15.0.1104.108) @ jammy2026-08-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-22.04-edge (6.8.0-136.136~22.04.1) @ jammy2026-08-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gcp-edge (5.15.0.1112.122~20.04.1) @ focal2026-08-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-intel-iotg-5.15 (5.15.0.1107.106) @ jammy2026-08-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-fde-lts-22.04 (5.15.0.1117.126) @ jammy2026-08-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-ibm-edge (5.15.0.1106.110~20.04.1) @ focal2026-08-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-6.8 (6.8.0-134.134) @ noble2026-08-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-nvidia-lowlatency-64k-6.8 (6.8.0-1058.61.1) @ noble2026-08-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-xilinx-zynqmp-tools-5.15.0-1075 (5.15.0-1075.79) @ jammy2026-08-23ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-nvidia-tegra-rt-6.8 (6.8.0-1029.30) @ noble2026-08-23ubuntu
redhatkernel-0:6.12.0-55.98.1.el10_02026-08-17redhat
redhatkernel-0:4.18.0-305.199.1.el8_42026-07-30redhat
redhatkernel-rt-0:3.10.0-1160.157.1.rt56.1309.el72026-07-27redhat
redhatkernel-0:3.10.0-1160.157.1.el72026-07-23redhat
redhatkernel-0:5.14.0-570.127.1.el9_62026-07-13redhat
redhatkernel-0:5.14.0-427.136.1.el9_42026-07-08redhat
redhatkernel-0:4.18.0-372.199.1.el8_62026-07-06redhat
redhatkernel-0:4.18.0-477.150.1.el8_82026-07-06redhat
redhatkernel-rt-0:5.14.0-284.178.1.rt14.463.el9_22026-07-01redhat
redhatkernel-0:5.14.0-284.178.1.el9_22026-07-01redhat
redhatkernel-0:6.12.0-211.29.1.el10_22026-06-30redhat
redhatkernel-0:5.14.0-687.17.1.el9_82026-06-22redhat
redhatkernel-0:4.18.0-553.136.1.el8_102026-06-19redhat
redhatkernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.136.1.rt7.477.el8_102026-06-19redhat
linuxKernel @ 5.15.202 (fixes >=3.5.0)—osv

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(4 across 4 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux5.10.103-1 ... 7.2~rc5-1~exp1 (496 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.1.106-1 ... 6.1.99-1 (48 versions)
  • every version up to 6.1.170-1: fixed in 6.1.170-1
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.38-1 ... 6.12.85-1~bpo12+1 (17 versions)
  • every version up to 6.12.85-1: fixed in 6.12.85-1
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 6.19~rc8-1~exp1 (117 versions)
  • every version up to 6.19.6-1: fixed in 6.19.6-1
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

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Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 11× in last 7d / 27× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 228 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 128 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-14 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
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  19. 2026-09-30 09:11 UTCOSV refresh
  20. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
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  5. 2026-09-11 15:53 UTCOSV refresh
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  19. 2026-08-23 19:49 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-08-23 19:49 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-08-23 19:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hw8-5267-5p9j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  22. 2026-08-23 00:19 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
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  28. 2026-08-17 12:53 UTCVendor advisory
  29. 2026-08-17 12:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hw8-5267-5p9j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  30. 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
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  32. 2026-08-16 04:51 UTCVendor advisory
  33. 2026-08-16 04:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hw8-5267-5p9j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  36. 2026-08-14 15:50 UTCVendor advisory
  37. 2026-08-14 15:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hw8-5267-5p9j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  38. 2026-08-14 03:25 UTCEG score recompute
  39. 2026-08-14 03:25 UTCVendor advisory
  40. 2026-08-14 03:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hw8-5267-5p9j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  41. 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  42. 2026-08-13 06:07 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-08-13 06:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hw8-5267-5p9j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  44. 2026-08-12 16:59 UTCEG score recompute
  45. 2026-08-12 16:59 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-08-12 16:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hw8-5267-5p9j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  47. 2026-08-12 13:51 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
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  49. 2026-08-11 15:59 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-08-11 15:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hw8-5267-5p9j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  54. 2026-08-11 01:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hw8-5267-5p9j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  57. 2026-08-10 03:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hw8-5267-5p9j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  58. 2026-08-09 14:58 UTCEG score recompute
  59. 2026-08-09 14:58 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-08-09 14:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hw8-5267-5p9j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  64. 2026-08-09 02:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hw8-5267-5p9j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  66. 2026-08-08 11:44 UTCVendor advisory
  67. 2026-08-08 11:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hw8-5267-5p9j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  68. 2026-08-07 23:20 UTCVendor advisory
  69. 2026-08-07 23:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hw8-5267-5p9j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  70. 2026-08-07 10:56 UTCVendor advisory
  71. 2026-08-07 10:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hw8-5267-5p9j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  74. 2026-08-06 16:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2hw8-5267-5p9j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-43279?
CVE-2026-43279 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on May 6, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usb-audio: Add sanity check for OOB writes at silencing At silencing the playback URB packets in the implicit fb mode before the actual playback, we blindly assume that the received packets fit with the buffer size. But when…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-43279 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-43279 was published on May 6, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of August 5, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-43279 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-43279 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (6th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-43279?
CVE-2026-43279 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-43279?
A fix for CVE-2026-43279 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-43279 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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