CVE-2022-3303

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

Database specific

{
    "cna_assigner": "redhat",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-667"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/3xxx/CVE-2022-3303.json"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

Events

Introduced

80e78fcce86de0288793a0ef0f6acf37656ee4cf

Fixed

8423f0b6d513b259fdab9c9bf4aaa6188d054c2d

Database specific

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{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "Fixed in kernel 6.0-rc5"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "Fixed in kernel 6.0-rc5"
                }
            ],
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "strategy": "StandaloneSingleVersion"
        },
        {
            "range": [
                {
                    "fixed": "8423f0b6d513b259fdab9c9bf4aaa6188d054c2d"
                }
            ],
            "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Fixed in kernel 6.*

Fixed in kernel 6.0-rc5

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-3303.json"