CVE-2022-49733: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: pcm: oss: Fix race at SNDCTL_DSP_SYNC There is a small race window at snd_pcm_oss_sync() that is called from OSS PCM SNDCTL_DSP_SYNC ioctl; namely the function calls snd_pcm_oss_make_ready() at first, then takes the params_lock mutex for the rest. When the stream is set up again by another thread between them, it leads to inconsistency, and may result in unexpected results such as NULL dereference of OSS buffer as a fuzzer spotted recently. The fix is simply to cover snd_pcm_oss_make_ready() call into the same params_lock mutex with snd_pcm_oss_make_ready_locked() variant.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.4.215 (fixed in 5.4.215); from 5.5, before 5.10.148 (fixed in 5.10.148); from 5.11, before 5.15.68 (fixed in 5.15.68); from 5.16, before 5.19.9 (fixed in 5.19.9); version 6.0 only

Published 2025-03-02. Last modified 2026-08-04.