[PATCH] ALSA: usb-audio: Use correct version for UAC3 header validation

From: Jun Seo

Date: Wed Feb 25 2026 - 20:08:54 EST


The entry of the validators table for UAC3 AC header descriptor is
defined with the wrong protocol version UAC_VERSION_2, while it should
have been UAC_VERSION_3. This results in the validator never matching
for actual UAC3 devices (protocol == UAC_VERSION_3), causing their
header descriptors to bypass validation entirely. A malicious USB
device presenting a truncated UAC3 header could exploit this to cause
out-of-bounds reads when the driver later accesses unvalidated
descriptor fields.

The bug was introduced in the same commit as the recently fixed UAC3
feature unit sub-type typo, and appears to be from the same copy-paste
error when the UAC3 section was created from the UAC2 section.

Fixes: 57f8770620e9 ("ALSA: usb-audio: More validations of descriptor units")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jun Seo <jun.seo.93@xxxxxxxxx>
---
sound/usb/validate.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/usb/validate.c b/sound/usb/validate.c
index 4bb4893f6e74..f62b7cc041dc 100644
--- a/sound/usb/validate.c
+++ b/sound/usb/validate.c
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ static const struct usb_desc_validator audio_validators[] = {
/* UAC_VERSION_2, UAC2_SAMPLE_RATE_CONVERTER: not implemented yet */

/* UAC3 */
- FIXED(UAC_VERSION_2, UAC_HEADER, struct uac3_ac_header_descriptor),
+ FIXED(UAC_VERSION_3, UAC_HEADER, struct uac3_ac_header_descriptor),
FIXED(UAC_VERSION_3, UAC_INPUT_TERMINAL,
struct uac3_input_terminal_descriptor),
FIXED(UAC_VERSION_3, UAC_OUTPUT_TERMINAL,
--
2.53.0