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CVE record · CVE-2026-89979

ALSA: pcm: Fix race between non-atomic ops and trigger-start

CVSS 7.8 HighEPSS 0.0017 · 6th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 16 Sept 2026, 10:32 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before b1d12144557fceed5de6e22e2c2e30a40ed37702 git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before b2edc017f94c08bdd0b046a586e43ac771a2f942 git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before b599e7f16441386754ec083fa62a549bccb02fca git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before ad29779736cfd6f5595f0cab300dd7611418e363 git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 5abeb4f9f2023f001d693b4e5e1ebbf25e25d0eb git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 7ad2ea7c10044b08ecf7b04376916faf12e17a99 git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 50afadf1ea66597116eb14e73c24da7ae99b759f git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before acac7b5e07349a9d10d78873afb4b93cd1dc721f git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 2.6.12
  • unaffected before 2.6.12 semver
  • unaffected 5.10.270 to 5.10.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.15.221 to 5.15.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.1.188 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.157 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.110 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.51 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2.5 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-89979
CNA
Linux
Tags
Published
16 Sept 2026
Updated
19 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.8 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (Linux)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0017, the 6th percentile, on 13 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 16 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.