UBUNTU-CVE-2024-46798

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: dapm: Fix UAF for sndsocpcmruntime object When using kernel with the following extra config, - CONFIGKASAN=y - CONFIGKASANGENERIC=y - CONFIGKASANINLINE=y - CONFIGKASANVMALLOC=y - CONFIGFRAMEWARN=4096 kernel detects that...

In function msm_pcm_playback_close() in all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel prtd is assigned substream->runtime->private_data. Later prtd is freed. However prtd is not sanitized and set to NULL resulting in a dangling pointer. There are other functions that access the same memory (substream->runtime->private_data) with a NULL check such as msm_pcm_volume_ctl_put() which means this freed memory could be used.

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