CVE-2022-50866

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel ASoC pxa audio driver. The function filter() used kasprintf() to allocate a formatted string but did not check whether the allocation succeeded before passing the result to strcmp(). If memory allocation fails and kasprintf() returns NULL, this results in a NULL pointer dereference when calling strcmp(), which can trigger a kernel crash and denial of service.

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Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.