fkie_cve-2022-3303
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2022-09-27 23:15
Modified
2025-05-21 16:15
Severity ?
4.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
4.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A race condition flaw was found in the Linux kernel sound subsystem due to improper locking. It could lead to a NULL pointer dereference while handling the SNDCTL_DSP_SYNC ioctl. A privileged local user (root or member of the audio group) could use this flaw to crash the system, resulting in a denial of service condition
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8423f0b6d513b259fdab9c9bf4aaa6188d054c2dExploit, Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00001.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lore.kernel.org/all/CAFcO6XN7JDM4xSXGhtusQfS2mSBcx50VJKwQpCq=WeLt57aaZA%40mail.gmail.com/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5257Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8423f0b6d513b259fdab9c9bf4aaa6188d054c2dExploit, Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00001.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAFcO6XN7JDM4xSXGhtusQfS2mSBcx50VJKwQpCq=WeLt57aaZA%40mail.gmail.com/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5257Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 6.0
linux linux_kernel 6.0
linux linux_kernel 6.0
linux linux_kernel 6.0
debian debian_linux 10.0
debian debian_linux 11.0


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