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openSUSE alsa Important Double-Free Memory Corruption Vuln 2026-3270-1

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Calendar Grey July 27, 2026
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A moderate security update for alsa addresses double-free issues allowing potential memory corruption in openSUSE. Upgrade now.
SUSE has released a security update addressing a moderate vulnerability in alsa (CVE-2026-56109) that could allow memory corruption, applicable to several SUSE Linux products.

Description

This update for alsa fixes the following issue

* CVE-2026-56109: double-free vulnerability in parse_def() in src/conf.c that

can allow attackers to corrupt memory (bsc#1268853).

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate memory corruption double-free OpenSUSE ALSA

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2026-3270=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP7

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP7-2026-3270=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 i586 ppc64le x86_64)

* libatopology2-debuginfo-1.2.10-150600.4.3.1

* alsa-topology-devel-1.2.10-150600.4.3.1

* libatopology2-1.2.10-150600.4.3.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 i586 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* alsa-debugsource-1.2.10-150600.4.3.1

* libasound2-debuginfo-1.2.10-150600.4.3.1

* alsa-1.2.10-150600.4.3.1

* libasound2-1.2.10-150600.4.3.1

* alsa-devel-1.2.10-150600.4.3.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64_ilp32)

* libatopology2-64bit-1.2.10-150600.4.3.1

* alsa-topology-devel-64bit-1.2.10-150600.4.3.1

* libasound2-64bit-1.2.10-150600.4.3.1

* libatopology2-64bit-debuginfo-1.2.10-150600.4.3.1

* alsa-devel-64bit-1.2.10-150600.4.3.1

* libasound2-64bit-debuginfo-1.2.10-150600.4.3.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (noarch)

* alsa-docs-1.2.10-150600.4.3.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (x86_64)

* libatopology2-32bit-1.2.10-150600.4.3.1

* libasound2-32bit-debuginfo-1.2.10-150600.4.3.1

* libatopology2-32bit-debuginfo-1.2.10-150600.4.3.1

* alsa-topology-devel-32bit-1.2.10-150600.4.3.1

*...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1268853

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-56109.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1268853

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:3270-1
Release Date: 2026-07-27T11:01:30Z

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