# CVE-2022-49538: ALSA: jack: Access input\_dev under mutex

- Severity: CVSS 5.5 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-02-26 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 3.13

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: jack: Access input_dev under mutex It is possible when using ASoC that input_dev is unregistered while calling snd_jack_report, which causes NULL pointer dereference. In order to prevent this serialize access to input_dev using mutex lock.

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## Related

- Browse: [Linux kernel](https://cve.now/tech/linux-kernel.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74bab3bcf422593c582e47130aa8eb41ebb2dc09
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8487a88136d54a1a4d3f26f1399685db648ab879
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c093b62c40027c21d649c5534ad7aa3605a99b00
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f68bed124c7699e23ffb4ce4fcc84671e9193cde
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2b8681769f6e205382f026b907d28aa5ec9d59a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5cc6f623f4818c7d7e9e966a45ebf324901ca9c5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e6a73b0c0f2014eb89249fb1640c5a3d58221c4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/582aea6084cc59fec881204f026816d1219f2348
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b6a6fc5280e97559287b61eade2d4b363e836f2

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