[PATCH] ALSA: seq: Fix uninitialised heap leak in snd_seq_event_dup()
From: HyeongJun An
Date: Tue Jun 23 2026 - 19:39:07 EST
snd_seq_event_dup() copies an incoming event into a pool cell and, in
the UMP-enabled build, clears the trailing cell->ump.raw.extra word that
the memcpy() did not cover. The guard deciding whether to clear it
compares the copied size against sizeof(cell->event):
memcpy(&cell->ump, event, size);
if (size < sizeof(cell->event))
cell->ump.raw.extra = 0;
For a legacy (non-UMP) event, size == sizeof(struct snd_seq_event) ==
sizeof(cell->event), so the condition is false and the extra word keeps
stale data. The cell pool is allocated with kvmalloc() (not zeroed) and
cells are reused via a free list, so that word holds uninitialised heap
or leftover event data.
When such a cell is delivered to a UMP client (client->midi_version > 0)
that set SNDRV_SEQ_FILTER_NO_CONVERT -- so the legacy event reaches it
unconverted -- snd_seq_read() reads it out as the larger struct
snd_seq_ump_event and copies the stale word to user space, a 4-byte
kernel heap infoleak to an unprivileged /dev/snd/seq client.
Compare against sizeof(cell->ump) instead, so the trailing word is zeroed
for every event shorter than the UMP cell.
Fixes: 46397622a3fa ("ALSA: seq: Add UMP support")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: HyeongJun An <sammiee5311@xxxxxxxxx>
---
sound/core/seq/seq_memory.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/sound/core/seq/seq_memory.c b/sound/core/seq/seq_memory.c
index ca9f6db0022c..209b08c2a940 100644
--- a/sound/core/seq/seq_memory.c
+++ b/sound/core/seq/seq_memory.c
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ int snd_seq_event_dup(struct snd_seq_pool *pool, struct snd_seq_event *event,
size = snd_seq_event_packet_size(event);
memcpy(&cell->ump, event, size);
#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SND_SEQ_UMP)
- if (size < sizeof(cell->event))
+ if (size < sizeof(cell->ump))
cell->ump.raw.extra = 0;
#endif
--
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