{"id":"CVE-2026-43436","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-43436","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T10:46:37.235Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usb-audio: Check endpoint numbers at parsing Scarlett2 mixer interfaces The Scarlett2 mixer quirk in USB-audio driver may hit a NULL dereference when a malformed USB descriptor is…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: usb-audio: Check endpoint numbers at parsing Scarlett2 mixer interfaces\n\nThe Scarlett2 mixer quirk in USB-audio driver may hit a NULL\ndereference when a malformed USB descriptor is passed, since it\nassumes the presence of an endpoint in the parsed interface in\nscarlett2_find_fc_interface(), as reported by fuzzer.\n\nFor avoiding the NULL dereference, just add the sanity check of\nbNumEndpoints and skip the invalid interface.","published":"2026-05-08T15:16:56.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T10:49:36.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-476"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00123,"percentile":0.02024,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.12%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d4f23885e4b90347c9a1d779af6e79a99b5172a","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d542cf3c4c854cdf5d58049771f68926b9eb2b9","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b014cc945baba75816cda0cf8934be87c9ed4947","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b267255c15d2a5b90c4e926146aa155e5161e264","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c5c5a6c53cf3b658f1d4512dfa61f3cd25bc34ba","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df1d8abf36ca3681c21a6809eaa9a1e01ef897a6","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-43436","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}