CVE-2022-49545 (GCVE-0-2022-49545)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 02:13 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:02
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Title
ALSA: usb-audio: Cancel pending work at closing a MIDI substream
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usb-audio: Cancel pending work at closing a MIDI substream At closing a USB MIDI output substream, there might be still a pending work, which would eventually access the rawmidi runtime object that is being released. For fixing the race, make sure to cancel the pending work at closing.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 40bdb5ec957aca5c5c1924602bef6b0ab18e22d3 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 11868ca21585561659c2575b0d6508ef8e9c4291 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 5e5fe2b6065541c6216a7a003b0cddf386be0d2d (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 517dcef4d2dda0132648f1e4c079ed17bba4d1a4 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 0125de38122f0f66bf61336158d12a1aabfe6425 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.121 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.46 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.17.14 , ≤ 5.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18.3 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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