Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-48901)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-48901). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.27, 5.16.13 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

btrfs: do not start relocation until in progress drops are done

We hit a bug with a recovering relocation on mount for one of our file
systems in production. I reproduced this locally by injecting errors
into snapshot delete with balance running at the same time. This
presented as an error while looking up an extent item

WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 1501 at fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c:866 lookup_inline_extent_backref+0x647/0x680
CPU: 5 PID: 1501 Comm: btrfs-balance Not tainted 5.16.0-rc8+ #8
RIP: 0010:lookup_inline_extent_backref+0x647/0x680
RSP: 0018:ffffae0a023ab960 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000000c RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff943fd2a39b60 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: 0001434088152de0 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000001d05000
R13: ffff943fd2a39b60 R14: ffff943fdb96f2a0 R15: ffff9442fc923000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff944e9eb40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f1157b1fca8 CR3: 000000010f092000 CR4: 0000000000350ee0
Call Trace:

insert_inline_extent_backref+0x46/0xd0
__btrfs_inc_extent_ref.isra.0+0x5f/0x200
? btrfs_merge_delayed_refs+0x164/0x190
__btrfs_run_delayed_refs+0x561/0xfa0
? btrfs_search_slot+0x7b4/0xb30
? btrfs_update_root+0x1a9/0x2c0
btrfs_run_delayed_refs+0x73/0x1f0
? btr…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-48901 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.27, 5.16.13 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-48901" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-48901 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.15.27, 5.16.13 — 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, 5.16.13.

🛡️ 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, 5.16.13
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.27, 5.16.13 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":"3.10.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.27"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"5.16.13"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48901 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48901 linux