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UBUNTU-CVE-2022-3170 (CVE-2022-3170)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2022-09-13 16:15 – Updated: 2025-07-16 05:00 – Source website

Withdrawn 2025-09-03

Details

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.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-3170	REPORT
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2125879	REPORT
	https://git.kernel.org/linus/6ab55ec0a938c7f943a4…	REPORT
	https://git.kernel.org/linus/5934d9a0383619c14df9…	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3170	REPORT

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CVE-2022-3170 (GCVE-0-2022-3170)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-13 15:36 – Updated: 2024-08-03 01:00

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-125

Assigner

redhat CNA under the redhat root

CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1054 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6ab55ec0…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5934d9a0…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	kernel	Affected: fixed in kernel 6.0-rc4

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