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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Wed, 21 May 2025 16:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2022-09-27T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-21T15:31:49.941Z

Reserved: 2022-09-26T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-3303

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:07:06.557Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-09-27T23:15:15.783

Modified: 2025-05-21T16:15:28.873

Link: CVE-2022-3303

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2022-09-04T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-3303 - Bugzilla