{"id":"CVE-2020-11725","details":"snd_ctl_elem_add in sound/core/control.c in the Linux kernel through 5.6.3 has a count=info-\u003eowner 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-\u003eowner 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-\u003eowner field in a safe way","modified":"2026-03-14T09:51:57.274021Z","published":"2020-04-12T22:15:11.900Z","references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lore.kernel.org/alsa-devel/s5h4ktmlfpx.wl-tiwai%40suse.de/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://twitter.com/yabbadabbadrew/status/1248632267028582400"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/3b2549a3740efb8af0150415737067d87e466c5b/sound/core/control.c#L1434-L1474"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-11725.json","unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"5.6.3"}]}]}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}