Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-48842)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-48842). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.30, 5.16.16 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

ice: Fix race condition during interface enslave

Commit 5dbbbd01cbba83 ("ice: Avoid RTNL lock when re-creating
auxiliary device") changes a process of re-creation of aux device
so ice_plug_aux_dev() is called from ice_service_task() context.
This unfortunately opens a race window that can result in dead-lock
when interface has left LAG and immediately enters LAG again.

Reproducer:

#!/bin/sh

ip link add lag0 type bond mode 1 miimon 100
ip link set lag0

for n in {1..10}; do
        echo Cycle: $n
        ip link set ens7f0 master lag0
        sleep 1
        ip link set ens7f0 nomaster
done

This results in:
[20976.208697] Workqueue: ice ice_service_task [ice]
[20976.213422] Call Trace:
[20976.215871] __schedule+0x2d1/0x830
[20976.219364] schedule+0x35/0xa0
[20976.222510] schedule_preempt_disabled+0xa/0x10
[20976.227043] __mutex_lock.isra.7+0x310/0x420
[20976.235071] enum_all_gids_of_dev_cb+0x1c/0x100 [ib_core]
[20976.251215] ib_enum_roce_netdev+0xa4/0xe0 [ib_core]
[20976.256192] ib_cache_setup_one+0x33/0xa0 [ib_core]
[20976.261079] ib_register_device+0x40d/0x580 [ib_core]
[20976.266139] irdma_ib_register_device+0x129/0x250 [irdma]
[20976.281409] irdma_probe+0x2c1/0x360 [irdma]
[20976.285691] auxiliary_bus_probe+0x45/0x70
[20976.289790] really_probe+0x1f2/0x480
[20976.298509] driver_probe_device+0x49/0xc0
[20976.302609] bus_for_each_drv+0x79/0xc0
[20976.306448] __device_attach+0xdc/0…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-48842 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.30, 5.16.16 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-48842" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-48842 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.15.30, 5.16.16 — 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 5.15.30, 5.16.16.

🛡️ 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 5.15.30, 5.16.16
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.30, 5.16.16 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":"5.15.24"},{"fixed":"5.15.30"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.10"},{"fixed":"5.16.16"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48842 linux Fixed in: 5.16.18-1