description: A race condition flaw was found in the Linux kernel sound subsystem due to improper locking. It could lead to a NULL pointer dereference while handling the SNDCTL_DSP_SYNC ioctl. A privileged local user (root or member of the audio group) could use this flaw to crash the system, resulting in a denial of service condition
problem types: CWE-667->CWE-362->CWE-476
affected:
{
vendor: n/a
product: Linux kernel
versions:
version: Fixed in kernel 6.0-rc5, status: affected
}