# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49498"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-26T02:13:32.895Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:01:04.786Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49498"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49498.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49498"
title: "ALSA: pcm: Check for null pointer of pointer substream before dereferencing it"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: pcm: Check for null pointer of pointer substream before dereferencing it\n\nPointer substream is being dereferenced on the assignment of pointer card\nbefore substream is being null checked with the macro PCM_RUNTIME_CHECK.\nAlthough PCM_RUNTIME_CHECK calls BUG_ON, it still is useful to perform the\nthe pointer check before card is assigned."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"95b30a4312545f2dde9db12bf6a425f35d5a0d77","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b2421a196cb0911ea95aec1050a0b830464c8fa6"},{"version":"d4cfb30fce03093ad944e0b44bd8f40bdad5330e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f2c68c52898f623fe84518da4606538d193b0cca"},{"version":"d4cfb30fce03093ad944e0b44bd8f40bdad5330e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7784d22f81a29df2ec57ca90d54f93a35cbcd1a2"},{"version":"d4cfb30fce03093ad944e0b44bd8f40bdad5330e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1f2e28857be1e5c7db39bbc221332215fc5467e3"},{"version":"d4cfb30fce03093ad944e0b44bd8f40bdad5330e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b41ef7ad9238c22aa2e142f5ce4ce1a1a0d48123"},{"version":"d4cfb30fce03093ad944e0b44bd8f40bdad5330e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"011b559be832194f992f73d6c0d5485f5925a10b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.6"},{"version":"5.10.121","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.46","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.17.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.17.*"},{"version":"5.18.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.18.*"},{"version":"5.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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