CVE-2022-49292
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: oss: Fix PCM OSS buffer allocation overflow We've got syzbot reports hitting INT_MAX overflow at vmalloc() allocation that is called from snd_pcm_plug_alloc().
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.28%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: oss: Fix PCM OSS buffer allocation overflow We've got syzbot reports hitting INT_MAX overflow at vmalloc() allocation that is called from snd_pcm_plug_alloc(). Although we apply the restrictions to input parameters, it's based only on the hw_params of the underlying PCM device. Since the PCM OSS layer allocates a temporary buffer for the data conversion, the size may become unexpectedly large when more channels or higher rates is given; in the reported case, it went over INT_MAX, hence it hits WARN_ON(). This patch is an attempt to avoid such an overflow and an allocation for too large buffers. First off, it adds the limit of 1MB as the upper bound for period bytes. This must be large enough for all use cases, and we really don't want to handle a larger temporary buffer than this size. The size check is performed at two places, where the original period bytes is calculated and where the plugin buffer size is calculated. In addition, the driver uses array_size() and array3_size() for multiplications to catch overflows for the converted period size and buffer bytes.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.28% probability · 20th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-787
- Affected
- linux/linux kernel
- Source
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c4190b41a69990666b4000999e27f8f1b2a426bPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ce74ff7059341d8b2f4d01c3383491df63d1898Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a40cbf3579a8e14849ba7ce46309c1992658d2bPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a63af1baf0a5e11827db60e3127f87e437cab6e5Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e74a069c6a7bb505f3ade141dddf85f4b0b5145aPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/efb6402c3c4a7c26d97c92d70186424097b6e366Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb08bf99195a87c798bc8ae1357337a981faeadePatch
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.