CVE-2026-80967 (GCVE-0-2026-80967)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-11 19:42 – Updated: 2026-10-19 08:45
VLAI
Title
ALSA: pcxhr: initialize mutexes before requesting threaded IRQ
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: pcxhr: initialize mutexes before requesting threaded IRQ pcxhr_probe() requests pcxhr_threaded_irq() before initializing mgr->lock, even though the threaded handler takes that mutex. Initialize the manager locks before request_threaded_irq() so an early interrupt cannot run against uninitialized mutex state during probe.
Severity
8.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-10-16 19:21 UTC
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7061 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 9bef72bdb26e291d6dffb04768741a0e49582666 , < 039602d6ddb1febbb0561b30dab04461f78a1319 (git)
Affected: 9bef72bdb26e291d6dffb04768741a0e49582666 , < a5f405adb0229c9cf64eb3d695c333c92e3d3d4f (git)
Affected: 9bef72bdb26e291d6dffb04768741a0e49582666 , < ede25b7fea0d7487ee8528bf35dc7b9a1cbcd814 (git)
Affected: 9bef72bdb26e291d6dffb04768741a0e49582666 , < c069b3cfd753d6688ea0271c43553631ab38ce10 (git)
Affected: 9bef72bdb26e291d6dffb04768741a0e49582666 , < 7ef9ad82d95dd3c74570d80a689a0570fbc7539e (git)
Affected: 9bef72bdb26e291d6dffb04768741a0e49582666 , < 7cf280fbef5db6310e1b32074c8c34d1ba459796 (git)
Affected: 9bef72bdb26e291d6dffb04768741a0e49582666 , < 6c97817e20598e5473094e0e38d1f51f1cf4dfff (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.221 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.188 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.157 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.109 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.50 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.4 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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