Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-48875)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-48875). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.165, 5.15.90, 6.1.8 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

wifi: mac80211: sdata can be NULL during AMPDU start

ieee80211_tx_ba_session_handle_start() may get NULL for sdata when a
deauthentication is ongoing.

Here a trace triggering the race with the hostapd test
multi_ap_fronthaul_on_ap:

(gdb) list *drv_ampdu_action+0x46
0x8b16 is in drv_ampdu_action (net/mac80211/driver-ops.c:396).
391 int ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
392
393 might_sleep();
394
395 sdata = get_bss_sdata(sdata);
396 if (!check_sdata_in_driver(sdata))
397 return -EIO;
398
399 trace_drv_ampdu_action(local, sdata, params);
400

wlan0: moving STA 02:00:00:00:03:00 to state 3
wlan0: associated
wlan0: deauthenticating from 02:00:00:00:03:00 by local choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING)
wlan3.sta1: Open BA session requested for 02:00:00:00:00:00 tid 0
wlan3.sta1: dropped frame to 02:00:00:00:00:00 (unauthorized port)
wlan0: moving STA 02:00:00:00:03:00 to state 2
wlan0: moving STA 02:00:00:00:03:00 to state 1
wlan0: Removed STA 02:00:00:00:03:00
wlan0: Destroyed STA 02:00:00:00:03:00
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffffffffffb48
PGD 11814067 P4D 11814067 PUD 11816067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 2 PID: 133397 Comm: kworker/u16:1 Tainted: G W 6.1.0-rc8-wt+ #59
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.0-20220807_005459-localhost 04/01/2014
Workqueue: phy3 ieee80211_ba_se…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-48875 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.165, 5.15.90, 6.1.8 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-48875" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-48875 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.10.165, 5.15.90, 6.1.8 — 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 5.10.165, 5.15.90, 6.1.8.

🛡️ 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 5.10.165, 5.15.90, 6.1.8
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.165, 5.15.90, 6.1.8 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":"2.6.36"},{"fixed":"5.10.165"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.90"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.8"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48875 linux Fixed in: 5.10.178-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48875 linux