CVE-2025-38078 ALSA: pcm: Fix race of buffer access at PCM OSS layer

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Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities in ALSA Impacting Audio Drivers Two buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been identified in ALSA audio drivers, affecting the UMP SysEx message conversion and the tuning control for the CA0132 codec. The vulnerabilities are tracked as CVE-2025-37891 and CVE-2025-39751, with the former published on May 19, 2025, and the latter on September 11, 2025. 7 sources 48