CVE-2022-3170

At a glance

Severity
Not available
EPSS
EPSS 0.25 % · percentile 16 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
redhat
NVD status
Modified

Description

An out-of-bounds access issue was found in the Linux kernel sound subsystem. It could occur when the 'id->name' provided by the user did not end with '\0'. A privileged local user could pass a specially crafted name through ioctl() interface and crash the system or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
kernelaffected fixed in kernel 6.0-rc4

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
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ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD