Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-48862)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-48862). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.29, 5.16.15 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

vhost: fix hung thread due to erroneous iotlb entries

In vhost_iotlb_add_range_ctx(), range size can overflow to 0 when
start is 0 and last is ULONG_MAX. One instance where it can happen
is when userspace sends an IOTLB message with iova=size=uaddr=0
(vhost_process_iotlb_msg). So, an entry with size = 0, start = 0,
last = ULONG_MAX ends up in the iotlb. Next time a packet is sent,
iotlb_access_ok() loops indefinitely due to that erroneous entry.

Call Trace:
 
 iotlb_access_ok+0x21b/0x3e0 drivers/vhost/vhost.c:1340
 vq_meta_prefetch+0xbc/0x280 drivers/vhost/vhost.c:1366
 vhost_transport_do_send_pkt+0xe0/0xfd0 drivers/vhost/vsock.c:104
 vhost_worker+0x23d/0x3d0 drivers/vhost/vhost.c:372
 kthread+0x2e9/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:377
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295

Reported by syzbot at:
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0abd373e2e50d704db87

To fix this, do two things:

Return -EINVAL in vhost_chr_write_iter() when userspace asks to map
a range with size 0.
Fix vhost_iotlb_add_range_ctx() to handle the range [0, ULONG_MAX]
by splitting it into two entries.

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-48862 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.29, 5.16.15 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-48862" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-48862 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.15.29, 5.16.15 — 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 5.15.29, 5.16.15.

🛡️ 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 5.15.29, 5.16.15
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.29, 5.16.15 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":"5.7.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.29"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"5.16.15"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48862 linux