CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-3170
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-09-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
An out-of-bounds access issue was found in the Linux kernel sound subsystem. It could occur when the 'id->name' provided by the user did not end with '\0'. A privileged local user could pass a specially crafted name through ioctl() interface and crash the system or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel 6.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5934d9a0383619c14df91af8fd76261dc3de2f5f Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6ab55ec0a938c7f943a4edba3d6514f775983887 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5934d9a0383619c14df91af8fd76261dc3de2f5f Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6ab55ec0a938c7f943a4edba3d6514f775983887 Patch, Third Party Advisory