Security Advisory

CVE-2022-3303

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-09-27 00:00:00
Last updated 2025-05-21 15:31:49
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

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