Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-48811)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-48811). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.27, 5.16.10 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

ibmvnic: don't release napi in __ibmvnic_open()

If __ibmvnic_open() encounters an error such as when setting link state,
it calls release_resources() which frees the napi structures needlessly.
Instead, have __ibmvnic_open() only clean up the work it did so far (i.e.
disable napi and irqs) and leave the rest to the callers.

If caller of __ibmvnic_open() is ibmvnic_open(), it should release the
resources immediately. If the caller is do_reset() or do_hard_reset(),
they will release the resources on the next reset.

This fixes following crash that occurred when running the drmgr command
several times to add/remove a vnic interface:

[102056] ibmvnic 30000003 env3: Disabling rx_scrq[6] irq
[102056] ibmvnic 30000003 env3: Disabling rx_scrq[7] irq
[102056] ibmvnic 30000003 env3: Replenished 8 pools
Kernel attempted to read user page (10) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)
BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000010
Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000a3c840
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
...
CPU: 9 PID: 102056 Comm: kworker/9:2 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.16.0-rc5-autotest-g6441998e2e37 #1
Workqueue: events_long __ibmvnic_reset [ibmvnic]
NIP:  c000000000a3c840 LR: c0080000029b5378 CTR: c000000000a3c820
REGS: c0000000548e37e0 TRAP: 0300   Not tainted  (5.16.0-rc5-autotest-g6441998e2e37)
MSR:  8000000000009033   CR…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-48811 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.27, 5.16.10 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-48811" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-48811 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.15.27, 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 5.15.27, 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 5.15.27, 5.16.10
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.27, 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":"4.12.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.27"}]},{"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-2022-48811 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48811 linux-azure