CVE-2022-49292

HIGH

Linux Kernel < 4.19.237, 4.20.0-5.16.18, 5.17.0-5.17.1 - ALSA OSS Out-of-bounds Write

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: oss: Fix PCM OSS buffer allocation overflow We've got syzbot reports hitting INT_MAX overflow at vmalloc() allocation that is called from snd_pcm_plug_alloc(). Although we apply the restrictions to input parameters, it's based only on the hw_params of the underlying PCM device. Since the PCM OSS layer allocates a temporary buffer for the data conversion, the size may become unexpectedly large when more channels or higher rates is given; in the reported case, it went over INT_MAX, hence it hits WARN_ON(). This patch is an attempt to avoid such an overflow and an allocation for too large buffers. First off, it adds the limit of 1MB as the upper bound for period bytes. This must be large enough for all use cases, and we really don't want to handle a larger temporary buffer than this size. The size check is performed at two places, where the original period bytes is calculated and where the plugin buffer size is calculated. In addition, the driver uses array_size() and array3_size() for multiplications to catch overflows for the converted period size and buffer bytes.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0027
EPSS Percentile 18.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (24)
linux/Kernel 2.6.12 - 4.19.237linux
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.188linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.32linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 5.16.18linux
linux/Kernel 5.17.0 - 5.17.1linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.109linux
Linux/Linux < 2.6.12
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 0c4190b41a69990666b4000999e27f8f1b2a426b
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 5ce74ff7059341d8b2f4d01c3383491df63d1898
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 7a40cbf3579a8e14849ba7ce46309c1992658d2b
... and 14 more
Published Feb 26, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026