CVE-2022-49292

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49292
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49292.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-49292
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-02-26T01:56:28.552Z
Modified
2026-03-20T12:22:20.118164Z
Summary
ALSA: oss: Fix PCM OSS buffer allocation overflow
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ALSA: oss: Fix PCM OSS buffer allocation overflow

We've got syzbot reports hitting INTMAX overflow at vmalloc() allocation that is called from sndpcmplugalloc(). Although we apply the restrictions to input parameters, it's based only on the hwparams of the underlying PCM device. Since the PCM OSS layer allocates a temporary buffer for the data conversion, the size may become unexpectedly large when more channels or higher rates is given; in the reported case, it went over INTMAX, hence it hits WARN_ON().

This patch is an attempt to avoid such an overflow and an allocation for too large buffers. First off, it adds the limit of 1MB as the upper bound for period bytes. This must be large enough for all use cases, and we really don't want to handle a larger temporary buffer than this size. The size check is performed at two places, where the original period bytes is calculated and where the plugin buffer size is calculated.

In addition, the driver uses arraysize() and array3size() for multiplications to catch overflows for the converted period size and buffer bytes.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/49xxx/CVE-2022-49292.json"
}
References

Affected packages

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

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
Fixed
a63af1baf0a5e11827db60e3127f87e437cab6e5
Fixed
0c4190b41a69990666b4000999e27f8f1b2a426b
Fixed
5ce74ff7059341d8b2f4d01c3383491df63d1898
Fixed
7a40cbf3579a8e14849ba7ce46309c1992658d2b
Fixed
fb08bf99195a87c798bc8ae1357337a981faeade
Fixed
e74a069c6a7bb505f3ade141dddf85f4b0b5145a
Fixed
efb6402c3c4a7c26d97c92d70186424097b6e366

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49292.json"