diff --git a/src/audio/module_adapter/module/cadence_ipc4.c b/src/audio/module_adapter/module/cadence_ipc4.c
index 17069b97113a..107a6895b212 100644
--- a/src/audio/module_adapter/module/cadence_ipc4.c
+++ b/src/audio/module_adapter/module/cadence_ipc4.c
@@ -245,6 +245,16 @@ static int cadence_codec_init(struct processing_module *mod)
 	if (codec->state == MODULE_DISABLED && ext_data->module_data_size > 0) {
 		int size = ext_data->module_data_size;
 		uint8_t *init_bytes;
+		uint32_t direction;
+
+		/* the init payload holds the codec params followed by the
+		 * direction word; validate the size up front before using it
+		 */
+		if (size < (int)(sizeof(struct snd_codec) + sizeof(uint32_t))) {
+			comp_err(dev, "setup config too small: %d", size);
+			ret = -EINVAL;
+			goto free_cd;
+		}
 
 		setup_cfg = &cd->setup_cfg;
 
@@ -265,9 +275,13 @@ static int cadence_codec_init(struct processing_module *mod)
 		setup_cfg->avail = true;
 		codec->cfg.avail = false;
 
-		/* direction follows the codec params in init data */
+		/* direction follows the codec params; copy it out rather than
+		 * dereferencing a possibly unaligned uint32_t pointer
+		 */
 		init_bytes = (uint8_t *)ext_data->module_data;
-		cd->direction = *(uint32_t *)(init_bytes + sizeof(struct snd_codec));
+		memcpy(&direction, init_bytes + sizeof(struct snd_codec),
+		       sizeof(direction));
+		cd->direction = direction;
 
 		comp_info(dev, "codec direction set to %u", cd->direction);
 	}
diff --git a/src/audio/module_adapter/module/waves/waves.c b/src/audio/module_adapter/module/waves/waves.c
index d328d9e5167f..aa800b32f992 100644
--- a/src/audio/module_adapter/module/waves/waves.c
+++ b/src/audio/module_adapter/module/waves/waves.c
@@ -612,6 +612,15 @@ static int waves_effect_apply_config(struct processing_module *mod)
 	for (index = 0; index < cfg->size && (!ret); param_number++) {
 		uint32_t param_data_size;
 
+		/* make sure a whole param header remains before reading
+		 * param->size / param->id below
+		 */
+		if (index + header_size > cfg->size) {
+			comp_err(dev, "module_param header at index %u (header %u) exceeds cfg size %zu",
+				 index, header_size, cfg->size);
+			return -EINVAL;
+		}
+
 		param = (struct module_param *)((char *)cfg->data + index);
 		param_data_size = param->size - sizeof(param->size) - sizeof(param->id);
 
diff --git a/src/audio/module_adapter/module_adapter_ipc3.c b/src/audio/module_adapter/module_adapter_ipc3.c
index 74c8f02afa2f..e6098dec0799 100644
--- a/src/audio/module_adapter/module_adapter_ipc3.c
+++ b/src/audio/module_adapter/module_adapter_ipc3.c
@@ -184,21 +184,25 @@ static int module_adapter_get_set_params(struct comp_dev *dev, struct sof_ipc_ct
 	const struct module_interface *const interface = mod->dev->drv->adapter_ops;
 	enum module_cfg_fragment_position pos;
 	uint32_t data_offset_size;
-	static uint32_t size;
 
 	comp_dbg(dev, "num_of_elem %d, elem remain %d msg_index %u",
 		 cdata->num_elems, cdata->elems_remaining, cdata->msg_index);
 
-	/* set the fragment position, data offset and config data size */
+	/*
+	 * The total fragmented-transfer size is kept per instance in
+	 * mod->runtime_params_size; a file-scope static would be shared across
+	 * all module_adapter components and corrupted by interleaved transfers.
+	 */
 	if (!cdata->msg_index) {
-		size = cdata->num_elems + cdata->elems_remaining;
-		data_offset_size = size;
+		mod->runtime_params_size = cdata->num_elems + cdata->elems_remaining;
+		data_offset_size = mod->runtime_params_size;
 		if (cdata->elems_remaining)
 			pos = MODULE_CFG_FRAGMENT_FIRST;
 		else
 			pos = MODULE_CFG_FRAGMENT_SINGLE;
 	} else {
-		data_offset_size = size - (cdata->num_elems + cdata->elems_remaining);
+		data_offset_size = mod->runtime_params_size -
+			(cdata->num_elems + cdata->elems_remaining);
 		if (cdata->elems_remaining)
 			pos = MODULE_CFG_FRAGMENT_MIDDLE;
 		else
diff --git a/src/include/module/module/base.h b/src/include/module/module/base.h
index 657673099d60..8818ffb9f212 100644
--- a/src/include/module/module/base.h
+++ b/src/include/module/module/base.h
@@ -203,6 +203,13 @@ struct processing_module {
 	struct userspace_context *user_ctx;
 	struct k_mem_domain *mdom;
 #endif /* CONFIG_USERSPACE */
+
+	/* total size of a fragmented runtime-params (get/set) transfer, kept
+	 * per instance so concurrent transfers to different components do not
+	 * corrupt each other's reassembly state. Appended here to avoid shifting
+	 * the offsets of the fields above.
+	 */
+	uint32_t runtime_params_size;
 #endif /* SOF_MODULE_PRIVATE */
 };