CVE-2023-52988: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: hda/via: Avoid potential array out-of-bound in add_secret_dac_path() snd_hda_get_connections() can return a negative error code. It may lead to accessing 'conn' array at a negative index. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 3.1, before 4.14.306 (fixed in 4.14.306); from 4.15, before 4.19.273 (fixed in 4.19.273); from 4.20, before 5.4.232 (fixed in 5.4.232); from 5.5, before 5.10.168 (fixed in 5.10.168); from 5.11, before 5.15.93 (fixed in 5.15.93); from 5.16, before 6.1.11 (fixed in 6.1.11); …

Published 2025-03-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.