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CVE-2022-3303

CVSS v3.1 4.7 (Medium)
47% Progress
EPSS 0.04 % (5th)
0.04% Progress
Affected Products 2
Advisories 36
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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

Weaknesses
CWE-362
Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
CWE-667
Improper Locking
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Published Date
2022-09-27 23:15:15
(23 months ago)
Updated Date
2023-11-07 03:51:05
(10 months ago)

Affected Products

Debian

Linux

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Linux Kernel prior 6.0 version cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel < 6.0
  Linux Kernel 6.0 Rc1 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc1
  Linux Kernel 6.0 Rc2 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc2
  Linux Kernel 6.0 Rc3 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc3
  Linux Kernel 6.0 Rc4 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc4

Configuration #2

    CPE23 From Up To
  Debian Linux 10.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0
  Debian Linux 11.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0