snd_ctl_elem_add in sound/core/control.c in the Linux kernel through 5.6.3 has a count=info->owner line, which later affects a private_size*count multiplication for unspecified "interesting side effects." NOTE: kernel engineers dispute this finding, because it could be relevant only if new callers were added that were unfamiliar with the misuse of the info->owner field to represent data unrelated to the "owner" concept. The existing callers, SNDRV_CTL_IOCTL_ELEM_ADD and SNDRV_CTL_IOCTL_ELEM_REPLACE, have been designed to misuse the info->owner field in a safe way

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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Updated: 2026-05-29T20:43:59.146Z

Reserved: 2020-04-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-11725

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T11:41:58.160Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-04-12T22:15:11.900

Modified: 2026-05-29T21:16:37.990

Link: CVE-2020-11725

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2020-04-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-11725 - Bugzilla

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