Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-48659)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-48659). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 4.9.330, 4.14.295, 4.19.260, 5.4.215, 5.10.146, 5.15.71, 5.19.12 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

mm/slub: fix to return errno if kmalloc() fails

In create_unique_id(), kmalloc(, GFP_KERNEL) can fail due to
out-of-memory, if it fails, return errno correctly rather than
triggering panic via BUG_ON();

kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:5893!
Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP

Call trace:
sysfs_slab_add+0x258/0x260 mm/slub.c:5973
__kmem_cache_create+0x60/0x118 mm/slub.c:4899
create_cache mm/slab_common.c:229 [inline]
kmem_cache_create_usercopy+0x19c/0x31c mm/slab_common.c:335
kmem_cache_create+0x1c/0x28 mm/slab_common.c:390
f2fs_kmem_cache_create fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2766 [inline]
f2fs_init_xattr_caches+0x78/0xb4 fs/f2fs/xattr.c:808
f2fs_fill_super+0x1050/0x1e0c fs/f2fs/super.c:4149
mount_bdev+0x1b8/0x210 fs/super.c:1400
f2fs_mount+0x44/0x58 fs/f2fs/super.c:4512
legacy_get_tree+0x30/0x74 fs/fs_context.c:610
vfs_get_tree+0x40/0x140 fs/super.c:1530
do_new_mount+0x1dc/0x4e4 fs/namespace.c:3040
path_mount+0x358/0x914 fs/namespace.c:3370
do_mount fs/namespace.c:3383 [inline]
__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3591 [inline]
__se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3568 [inline]
__arm64_sys_mount+0x2f8/0x408 fs/namespace.c:3568

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-48659 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 4.9.330, 4.14.295, 4.19.260, 5.4.215, 5.10.146, 5.15.71, 5.19.12 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-48659" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-48659 (Kernel)
Patched: 4.9.330, 4.14.295, 4.19.260, 5.4.215, 5.10.146, 5.15.71, 5.19.12 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.

❓ What is the problem

A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Kernel.

📍 Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Kernel.

🔥 Severity

Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 4.9.330, 4.14.295, 4.19.260, 5.4.215, 5.10.146, 5.15.71, 5.19.12.

🛡️ Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

🔍 Detection

Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Kernel' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.

Response actions

Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order

1
Identify exposure identify
```
grep -r 'Kernel' . | grep -v node_modules
```
リポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で Kernel を grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。
2
Apply patch patch
```
Upgrade Kernel to 4.9.330, 4.14.295, 4.19.260, 5.4.215, 5.10.146, 5.15.71, 5.19.12
```
ステージング環境で 4.9.330, 4.14.295, 4.19.260, 5.4.215, 5.10.146, 5.15.71, 5.19.12 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
3
Post-deployment verification verify
```
Confirm patched version is live in production
```
パッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。

Affected packages

Linux Kernel

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"2.6.22"},{"fixed":"4.9.330"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.10.0"},{"fixed":"4.14.295"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.15.0"},{"fixed":"4.19.260"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.20.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.215"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.146"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.71"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"5.19.12"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48659 linux Fixed in: 5.10.148-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48659 linux-aws Fixed in: 4.4.0-1135.141