Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-48802)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-48802). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.102, 5.15.25, 5.16.10 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

fs/proc: task_mmu.c: don't read mapcount for migration entry

The syzbot reported the below BUG:

kernel BUG at include/linux/page-flags.h:785!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
CPU: 1 PID: 4392 Comm: syz-executor560 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc6-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
RIP: 0010:PageDoubleMap include/linux/page-flags.h:785 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__page_mapcount+0x2d2/0x350 mm/util.c:744
Call Trace:
page_mapcount include/linux/mm.h:837 [inline]
smaps_account+0x470/0xb10 fs/proc/task_mmu.c:466
smaps_pte_entry fs/proc/task_mmu.c:538 [inline]
smaps_pte_range+0x611/0x1250 fs/proc/task_mmu.c:601
walk_pmd_range mm/pagewalk.c:128 [inline]
walk_pud_range mm/pagewalk.c:205 [inline]
walk_p4d_range mm/pagewalk.c:240 [inline]
walk_pgd_range mm/pagewalk.c:277 [inline]
__walk_page_range+0xe23/0x1ea0 mm/pagewalk.c:379
walk_page_vma+0x277/0x350 mm/pagewalk.c:530
smap_gather_stats.part.0+0x148/0x260 fs/proc/task_mmu.c:768
smap_gather_stats fs/proc/task_mmu.c:741 [inline]
show_smap+0xc6/0x440 fs/proc/task_mmu.c:822
seq_read_iter+0xbb0/0x1240 fs/seq_file.c:272
seq_read+0x3e0/0x5b0 fs/seq_file.c:162
vfs_read+0x1b5/0x600 fs/read_write.c:479
ksys_read+0x12d/0x250 fs/read_write.c:619
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-48802 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.102, 5.15.25, 5.16.10 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-48802" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-48802 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.10.102, 5.15.25, 5.16.10 — 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 5.10.102, 5.15.25, 5.16.10.

🛡️ 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 5.10.102, 5.15.25, 5.16.10
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.102, 5.15.25, 5.16.10 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":"4.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.102"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.25"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"5.16.10"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48802 linux Fixed in: 5.10.103-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48802 linux-azure