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Tracker / CVE-2022-49291

CVE-2022-49291

High 7.8

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: pcm: Fix races among concurrent hw_params and hw_free calls Currently we have neither proper check nor protection against the concurrent calls of PCM hw_params and hw_free ioctls, which may result in a UAF. Since the existing PCM stream lock can't be used for protecting the whole ioctl operations, we need a new mutex to protect those racy calls. This patch introduced a new mutex, runtime->buffer_mutex, and applies it to both hw_params and hw_free ioctl code paths. Along with it, the both functions are slightly modified (the mmap_count check is moved into the state-check block) for code simplicity.

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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