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CVE-2022-3170

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-09-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

An out-of-bounds access issue was found in the Linux kernel sound subsystem. It could occur when the 'id->name' provided by the user did not end with '\0'. A privileged local user could pass a specially crafted name through ioctl() interface and crash the system or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: 6.0-rc1, 6.0-rc2, 6.0-rc3

References

• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5934d9a0383619c14df91af8fd76261dc3de2f5f
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6ab55ec0a938c7f943a4edba3d6514f775983887
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5934d9a0383619c14df91af8fd76261dc3de2f5f
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6ab55ec0a938c7f943a4edba3d6514f775983887

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