ACK: [SRU Bionic 0/1] CVE-2022-3303

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Wed May 24 12:37:27 UTC 2023


On 5/24/23 1:17 AM, Cengiz Can wrote:
> [Impact]
> It was discovered that the sound subsystem in the Linux kernel contained a race
> condition in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial
> of service (system crash).
> 
> [Fix]
> Cherry picked from linux-5.4.y. Upstream fix does not apply due to error
> checking differences.
> 
> [Test case]
> Compile and boot tested only.
> 
> [Potential regression]
> Low. Moves an error check a little bit further.
> 
> Sasha Levin (1):
>    ALSA: pcm: oss: Fix race at SNDCTL_DSP_SYNC
> 
>   sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c | 5 +++--
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
Acked-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
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Tim Gardner
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