Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-48746)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-48746). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.97, 5.15.20, 5.16.6 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

net/mlx5e: Fix handling of wrong devices during bond netevent

Current implementation of bond netevent handler only check if
the handled netdev is VF representor and it missing a check if
the VF representor is on the same phys device of the bond handling
the netevent.

Fix by adding the missing check and optimizing the check if
the netdev is VF representor so it will not access uninitialized
private data and crashes.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000036c
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
Workqueue: eth3bond0 bond_mii_monitor [bonding]
RIP: 0010:mlx5e_is_uplink_rep+0xc/0x50 [mlx5_core]
RSP: 0018:ffff88812d69fd60 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8881cf800000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff88812d69fe10 RSI: 000000000000001b RDI: ffff8881cf800880
RBP: ffff8881cf800000 R08: 00000445cabccf2b R09: 0000000000000008
R10: 0000000000000004 R11: 0000000000000008 R12: ffff88812d69fe10
R13: 00000000fffffffe R14: ffff88820c0f9000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88846fb00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000000000036c CR3: 0000000103d80006 CR4: 0000000000370ea0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
mlx5e_eswitch_uplink_rep+0x31/0x40 [mlx5_core]
mlx5e_rep_is_lag_netdev+0x94/0xc0 [mlx5_core]
m…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-48746 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.97, 5.15.20, 5.16.6 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-48746" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-48746 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.10.97, 5.15.20, 5.16.6 — 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 5.10.97, 5.15.20, 5.16.6.

🛡️ 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 5.10.97, 5.15.20, 5.16.6
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.97, 5.15.20, 5.16.6 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":"5.8.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.97"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.20"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"5.16.6"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48746 linux Fixed in: 5.10.103-1