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Tracker / CVE-2022-49288

CVE-2022-49288

High 7.8

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: pcm: Fix races among concurrent prealloc proc writes We have no protection against concurrent PCM buffer preallocation changes via proc files, and it may potentially lead to UAF or some weird problem. This patch applies the PCM open_mutex to the proc write operation for avoiding the racy proc writes and the PCM stream open (and further operations).

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · … → 4.14.279
linux linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.19.243
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.193
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.32
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 5.16.18
linux linux_kernel · 5.17 → 5.17.1
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.109

Analysis

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