Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-49291

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - ALSA: pcm: Fix races among concurrent hwparams and hwfree calls Currently we have neither proper check nor protection against the concurrent calls of PCM hwpara...

CVE-2022-49291

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: pcm: Fix races among concurrent hwparams and hwfree calls Currently we have neither proper check nor protection against the concurrent calls of PCM hwparams and hwfree ioctls, which may result in a UAF. Since the existing P...

CVE-2022-49291

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: pcm: Fix races among concurrent hwparams and hwfree calls Currently we have neither proper check nor protection against the concurrent calls of PCM hwparams and hwfree ioctls, which may result in a UAF. Since the existing P...

CVE-2022-49291

The CVE-2022-49291 entry describes a Linux kernel flaw in ALSA: pcm where concurrent hw_params and hw_free ioctls could trigger a use-after-free. The fix introduces a dedicated mutex (runtime->buffer_mutex) and applies it to both hw_params and hw_free code paths, with small reordering (mmap_co...