CVE-2022-49292

Technical 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

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References