Security Advisory

CVE-2022-49498

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-02-26 02:13:32
Last updated 2026-05-11 19:01:04
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: pcm: Check for null pointer of pointer substream before dereferencing it Pointer substream is being dereferenced on the assignment of pointer card before substream is being null checked with the macro PCM_RUNTIME_CHECK. Although PCM_RUNTIME_CHECK calls BUG_ON, it still is useful to perform the the pointer check before card is assigned.