CVE-2022-3303

4.7MEDIUM

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 us

Published: 9/27/2022Updated: 5/21/2025
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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

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Affected Products

linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel
6.0
linuxlinux_kernel
6.0
linuxlinux_kernel
6.0
linuxlinux_kernel
6.0
debiandebian_linux
10.0
debiandebian_linux
11.0

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