CVE-2026-96675: Alsa Project Alsa-Lib

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

alsa-lib through 1.2.16.1 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the multi PCM plugin that fails to validate sparse binding indices before array access. Attackers can supply a malicious ALSA configuration file with sparse bindings to trigger an out-of-bounds array read and assertion failure, causing the application to abort.

Affected products

• Alsa Project Alsa-Lib: up to and including 1.2.16.1

Published 2026-09-23. Last modified 2026-09-24.