Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-48895)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-48895). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.7 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

iommu/arm-smmu: Don't unregister on shutdown

Michael Walle says he noticed the following stack trace while performing
a shutdown with "reboot -f". He suggests he got "lucky" and just hit the
correct spot for the reboot while there was a packet transmission in
flight.

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000098
CPU: 0 PID: 23 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc5-00088-gf3600ff8e322 #1930
Hardware name: Kontron KBox A-230-LS (DT)
pc : iommu_get_dma_domain+0x14/0x20
lr : iommu_dma_map_page+0x9c/0x254
Call trace:
iommu_get_dma_domain+0x14/0x20
dma_map_page_attrs+0x1ec/0x250
enetc_start_xmit+0x14c/0x10b0
enetc_xmit+0x60/0xdc
dev_hard_start_xmit+0xb8/0x210
sch_direct_xmit+0x11c/0x420
__dev_queue_xmit+0x354/0xb20
ip6_finish_output2+0x280/0x5b0
__ip6_finish_output+0x15c/0x270
ip6_output+0x78/0x15c
NF_HOOK.constprop.0+0x50/0xd0
mld_sendpack+0x1bc/0x320
mld_ifc_work+0x1d8/0x4dc
process_one_work+0x1e8/0x460
worker_thread+0x178/0x534
kthread+0xe0/0xe4
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
Code: d503201f f9416800 d503233f d50323bf (f9404c00)
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception in interrupt

This appears to be reproducible when the board has a fixed IP address,
is ping flooded from another host, and "reboot -f" is used.

The following is one more manifestation of the issue:

$ reboot -f
kvm: exiting hardware virtualization…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-48895 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.7 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-48895" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-48895 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.1.7 — 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 6.1.7.

🛡️ 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 6.1.7
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.7 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":"6.1.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.7"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48895 linux Fixed in: 6.1.7-1