[PATCH 1/2] ALSA: caiaq: fix out-of-bounds read in the Traktor Kontrol S4 input parser

From: Maoyi Xie

Date: Thu Jun 18 2026 - 02:03:37 EST


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.

Fixes: 15c5ab607045 ("ALSA: snd-usb-caiaq: Add support for Traktor Kontrol S4")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Maoyi Xie <maoyixie.tju@xxxxxxxxx>
---
sound/usb/caiaq/input.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/usb/caiaq/input.c b/sound/usb/caiaq/input.c
index 5c70fdf61cc1..2db4d1332df1 100644
--- a/sound/usb/caiaq/input.c
+++ b/sound/usb/caiaq/input.c
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ static void snd_usb_caiaq_tks4_dispatch(struct snd_usb_caiaqdev *cdev,
{
struct device *dev = caiaqdev_to_dev(cdev);

- while (len) {
+ while (len >= TKS4_MSGBLOCK_SIZE) {
unsigned int i, block_id = (buf[0] << 8) | buf[1];

switch (block_id) {
--
2.34.1