CVE-2023-52806

Updated on 21 May 2024

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ALSA: hda: Fix possible null-ptr-deref when assigning a stream

While AudioDSP drivers assign streams exclusively of HOST or LINK type, nothing blocks a user to attempt to assign a COUPLED stream. As supplied substream instance may be a stub, what is the case when code-loading, such scenario ends with null-ptr-deref.

Details

Affected packages:
linux @ 4.15.0 (+10 more)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ALSA: hda: Fix possible null-ptr-deref when assigning a stream

While AudioDSP drivers assign streams exclusively of HOST or LINK type, nothing blocks a user to attempt to assign a COUPLED stream. As supplied substream instance may be a stub, what is the case when code-loading, such scenario ends with null-ptr-deref.

Fixes