Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-48903)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-48903). 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: fix relocation crash due to premature return from btrfs_commit_transaction()

We are seeing crashes similar to the following trace:

[38.969182] WARNING: CPU: 20 PID: 2105 at fs/btrfs/relocation.c:4070 btrfs_relocate_block_group+0x2dc/0x340 [btrfs]
[38.973556] CPU: 20 PID: 2105 Comm: btrfs Not tainted 5.17.0-rc4 #54
[38.974580] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.0-59-gc9ba5276e321-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[38.976539] RIP: 0010:btrfs_relocate_block_group+0x2dc/0x340 [btrfs]
[38.980336] RSP: 0000:ffffb0dd42e03c20 EFLAGS: 00010206
[38.981218] RAX: ffff96cfc4ede800 RBX: ffff96cfc3ce0000 RCX: 000000000002ca14
[38.982560] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 4cfd109a0bcb5d7f RDI: ffff96cfc3ce0360
[38.983619] RBP: ffff96cfc309c000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[38.984678] R10: ffff96cec0000001 R11: ffffe84c80000000 R12: ffff96cfc4ede800
[38.985735] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff96cfc3ce0360
[38.987146] FS: 00007f11c15218c0(0000) GS:ffff96d6dfb00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[38.988662] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[38.989398] CR2: 00007ffc922c8e60 CR3: 00000001147a6001 CR4: 0000000000370ee0
[38.990279] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[38.991219] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[38.992528] Call Trace:
[38.992854]
[38.993148] btrfs_relocate_chunk+0x27/…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-48903 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-2022-48903" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-48903 (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":"5.12.0"},{"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-2022-48903 linux Fixed in: 5.16.14-1