Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-48937)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-48937). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.103, 5.15.26, 5.16.12 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

io_uring: add a schedule point in io_add_buffers()

Looping ~65535 times doing kmalloc() calls can trigger soft lockups,
especially with DEBUG features (like KASAN).

[ 253.536212] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#64 stuck for 26s! [b219417889:12575]
[ 253.544433] Modules linked in: vfat fat i2c_mux_pca954x i2c_mux spidev cdc_acm xhci_pci xhci_hcd sha3_generic gq(O)
[ 253.544451] CPU: 64 PID: 12575 Comm: b219417889 Tainted: G S O 5.17.0-smp-DEV #801
[ 253.544457] RIP: 0010:kernel_text_address (./include/asm-generic/sections.h:192 ./include/linux/kallsyms.h:29 kernel/extable.c:67 kernel/extable.c:98)
[ 253.544464] Code: 0f 93 c0 48 c7 c1 e0 63 d7 a4 48 39 cb 0f 92 c1 20 c1 0f b6 c1 5b 5d c3 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 53 48 89 fb <48> c7 c0 00 00 80 a0 41 be 01 00 00 00 48 39 c7 72 0c 48 c7 c0 40
[ 253.544468] RSP: 0018:ffff8882d8baf4c0 EFLAGS: 00000246
[ 253.544471] RAX: 1ffff1105b175e00 RBX: ffffffffa13ef09a RCX: 00000000a13ef001
[ 253.544474] RDX: ffffffffa13ef09a RSI: ffff8882d8baf558 RDI: ffffffffa13ef09a
[ 253.544476] RBP: ffff8882d8baf4d8 R08: ffff8882d8baf5e0 R09: 0000000000000004
[ 253.544479] R10: ffff8882d8baf5e8 R11: ffffffffa0d59a50 R12: ffff8882eab20380
[ 253.544481] R13: ffffffffa0d59a50 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 1ffff1105b175eb0
[ 253.544483] FS: 00000000016d3380(0000) GS:ffff88af48c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 253.544486] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-48937 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.103, 5.15.26, 5.16.12 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-48937" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-48937 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.10.103, 5.15.26, 5.16.12 — 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 5.10.103, 5.15.26, 5.16.12.

🛡️ 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 5.10.103, 5.15.26, 5.16.12
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.103, 5.15.26, 5.16.12 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":"5.7.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.103"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.26"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"5.16.12"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48937 linux Fixed in: 5.10.103-1