Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for alsa-lib.

CVE-2026-96675[0]:
| 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.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-96675
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-96675

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore

Pull-request created in Salsa to address these two CVEs that share the
same fix:
https://salsa.debian.org/alsa-team/alsa-lib/-/merge_requests/7