CVE-2026-90781: ALSA Project alsa-lib

alsa-lib through 1.2.16.1 Off-by-One Stack Buffer Overflow in __snd_ctl_ascii_elem_id_parse()

CVSS 4.8 MediumEPSS 0.0018 · 7th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: VulnCheck) at 13 Sept 2026, 12:22 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
Vendor	Product	Versions
ALSA Project	alsa-lib pkg:github/alsa-project/alsa-lib	affected 1.2.16.1 and earlier custom unaffected f84cd4ced7b36fddb8e4ee24404cf7c091d27020 git Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers

CVE-2026-90781

CNA

VulnCheck

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-193

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
4.8	Medium	4.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	CNA (VulnCheck)Used for this record
4.4	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L	CNA (VulnCheck)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0018, the 7th percentile, on 5 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 13 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib/commit/f84cd4ced7b36fddb8e4ee24404cf7c091d27020 patch
github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib/blob/v1.2.16.1/src/control/ctlparse.c#L216-L241 technical-description
lore.kernel.org/alsa-devel/CACBQ=P2FhO3M6dkv3cWuKb6Qhs92ouV+FJ3SJZ_PVBSSdJWRAQ@mail.gmail.com/ mailing-list
github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib product
www.vulncheck.com/advisories/alsa-lib-through-1.2.16.1-off-by-one-stack-buffer-overflow-in-snd-ctl-ascii-elem-id-parse third-party-advisory

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.