CVE-2022-49292

ALSA: oss: Fix PCM OSS buffer allocation overflow

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Feb 26, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Feb 26, 2025

Read the record on cve.org

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before a63af1baf0a5e11827db60e3127f87e437cab6e5Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 0c4190b41a69990666b4000999e27f8f1b2a426bAffected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 5ce74ff7059341d8b2f4d01c3383491df63d1898Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 7a40cbf3579a8e14849ba7ce46309c1992658d2bAffected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before fb08bf99195a87c798bc8ae1357337a981faeadeAffected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before e74a069c6a7bb505f3ade141dddf85f4b0b5145aAffected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before efb6402c3c4a7c26d97c92d70186424097b6e366Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.12Affected
  • before 2.6.12Not affected
  • 4.19.237 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.188 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.109 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.32 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.16.18 through 5.16.*Not affected
  • 5.17.1 through 5.17.*Not affected
  • 5.18 and laterNot affected

References

Every record here comes from the CVE Program’s CVE List. © 1999–2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. The records are reproduced under the CVE Program terms of use.