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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Sep 22, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 22, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ALSA: firewire-lib: fix uninitialized flag for AV/C deferred transaction

AV/C deferred transaction was supported at a commit 00a7bb81c20f ("ALSA:
firewire-lib: Add support for deferred transaction") while 'deferrable'
flag can be uninitialized for non-control/notify AV/C transactions.
UBSAN reports it:

kernel: ================================================================================
kernel: UBSAN: invalid-load in /build/linux-aa0B4d/linux-5.15.0/sound/firewire/fcp.c:363:9
kernel: load of value 158 is not a valid value for type '_Bool'
kernel: CPU: 3 PID: 182227 Comm: irq/35-firewire Tainted: P OE 5.15.0-18-generic #18-Ubuntu
kernel: Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. AX370-Gaming 5/AX370-Gaming 5, BIOS F42b 08/01/2019
kernel: Call Trace:
kernel:
kernel: show_stack+0x52/0x58
kernel: dump_stack_lvl+0x4a/0x5f
kernel: dump_stack+0x10/0x12
kernel: ubsan_epilogue+0x9/0x45
kernel: __ubsan_handle_load_invalid_value.cold+0x44/0x49
kernel: fcp_response.part.0.cold+0x1a/0x2b [snd_firewire_lib]
kernel: fcp_response+0x28/0x30 [snd_firewire_lib]
kernel: fw_core_handle_request+0x230/0x3d0 [firewire_core]
kernel: handle_ar_packet+0x1d9/0x200 [firewire_ohci]
kernel: ? handle_ar_packet+0x1d9/0x200 [firewire_ohci]
kernel: ? transmit_complete_callback+0x9f/0x120 [firewire_core]
kernel: ar_context_tasklet+0xa8/0x2e0 [firewire_ohci]
kernel: tasklet_action_common.constprop.0+0xea/0xf0
kernel: tasklet_action+0x22/0x30
kernel: __do_softirq+0xd9/0x2e3
kernel: ? irq_finalize_oneshot.part.0+0xf0/0xf0
kernel: do_softirq+0x75/0xa0
kernel:
kernel:
kernel: __local_bh_enable_ip+0x50/0x60
kernel: irq_forced_thread_fn+0x7e/0x90
kernel: irq_thread+0xba/0x190
kernel: ? irq_thread_fn+0x60/0x60
kernel: kthread+0x11e/0x140
kernel: ? irq_thread_check_affinity+0xf0/0xf0
kernel: ? set_kthread_struct+0x50/0x50
kernel: ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
kernel:
kernel: ================================================================================

This commit fixes the bug. The bug has no disadvantage for the non-
control/notify AV/C transactions since the flag has an effect for AV/C
response with INTERIM (0x0f) status which is not used for the transactions
in AV/C general specification.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 26, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 22, 2025
Last updated Sep 22, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(12th percentile)

Weaknesses

Use of Uninitialized Resource

The product uses or accesses a resource that has not been initialized. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2022-49248

GHSA ID

GHSA-2583-337f-6vp9

Source code

No known source code

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