The Alsa Project maintains the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, a foundational audio subsystem and user-space library widely integrated into Linux distributions and embedded audio systems. Vulnerabilities in Alsa and Alsa-lib represent a niche footprint within the broader vulnerability landscape; live severity, exploitation, and exposure counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Alsa Project over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (5 CVEs).
5 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2026-56109MEDIUM The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) library before 1.2.16.1 contains a double-free vulnerability in parse_def() in src/conf.c that allows attackers to corrupt memory by su | Jun 22, 2026 | 6.8 | 28 | NO | NO |
CVE-2019-13351HIGH posix/JackSocket.cpp in libjack in JACK2 1.9.1 through 1.9.12 (as distributed with alsa-plugins 1.1.7 and later) has a "double file descriptor close" issue during a failed connecti | Jul 5, 2019 | 8.1 | 26 | NO | NO |
CVE-2009-0035MEDIUM alsa-utils 1.0.19 and later versions allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack via the /usr/bin/alsa-info and /usr/bin/alsa-info.sh scripts. | Nov 9, 2019 | 5.5 | 21 | NO | NO |
CVE-2026-25068MEDIUM alsa-lib versions 1.2.2 up to and including 1.2.15.2, prior to commit 5f7fe33, contain a heap-based buffer overflow in the topology mixer control decoder. The tplg_decode_control_m | Jan 29, 2026 | 4.6 | 19 | NO | NO |
CVE-2005-0087MEDIUM The alsa-lib package in Red Hat Linux 4 disables stack protection for the libasound.so library, which makes it easier for attackers to execute arbitrary code if there are other vul | Apr 27, 2005 | 4.6 | 15 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (5 CVEs).
An overview of all social media posts that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Alsa Project.
Media articles that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Alsa Project — matched by CVE ID, not by vendor name.