CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-3303

4.7 MEDIUM Published 2022-09-27 Modified 2026-10-14 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-09-27
Last modified
2026-10-14
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-362, CWE-667

Description

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

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 6.0) • linux linux kernel 6.0 • debian debian linux 10.0 • debian debian linux 11.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
  • CWE-667 Improper Locking weakness

References