CVE-2022-3303

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3303
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-3303.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-3303
Downstream
Related
Published
2022-09-27T00:00:00Z
Modified
2026-05-08T04:51:24.126447Z
Severity
  • 4.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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 SNDCTLDSPSYNC 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",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/3xxx/CVE-2022-3303.json",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-667"
    ]
}
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
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
80e78fcce86de0288793a0ef0f6acf37656ee4cf
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "Fixed in kernel 6.0-rc5"
        }
    ],
    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD"
}

Database specific

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