Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-48902)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-48902). 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 WARN_ON() if we have PageError set

Whenever we do any extent buffer operations we call
assert_eb_page_uptodate() to complain loudly if we're operating on an
non-uptodate page. Our overnight tests caught this warning earlier this
week

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 553508 at fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:6849 assert_eb_page_uptodate+0x3f/0x50
CPU: 1 PID: 553508 Comm: kworker/u4:13 Tainted: G W 5.17.0-rc3+ #564
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.13.0-2.fc32 04/01/2014
Workqueue: btrfs-cache btrfs_work_helper
RIP: 0010:assert_eb_page_uptodate+0x3f/0x50
RSP: 0018:ffffa961440a7c68 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0017ffffc0002112 RBX: ffffe6e74453f9c0 RCX: 0000000000001000
RDX: ffffe6e74467c887 RSI: ffffe6e74453f9c0 RDI: ffff8d4c5efc2fc0
RBP: 0000000000000d56 R08: ffff8d4d4a224000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00015817fa9d1ef0 R11: 000000000000000c R12: 00000000000007b1
R13: ffff8d4c5efc2fc0 R14: 0000000001500000 R15: 0000000001cb1000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8d4dbbd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007ff31d3448d8 CR3: 0000000118be8004 CR4: 0000000000370ee0
Call Trace:

extent_buffer_test_bit+0x3f/0x70
free_space_test_bit+0xa6/0xc0
load_free_space_tree+0x1f6/0x470
caching_thread+0x454/0x630
? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x12/0x60
? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x12/0x60
? rcu_read…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-48902 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-2022-48902" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-48902 (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":"3.4.0"},{"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-2022-48902 linux