Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49262)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49262). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.33, 5.16.19, 5.17.2 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

crypto: octeontx2 - remove CONFIG_DM_CRYPT check

No issues were found while using the driver with dm-crypt enabled. So
CONFIG_DM_CRYPT check in the driver can be removed.

This also fixes the NULL pointer dereference in driver release if
CONFIG_DM_CRYPT is enabled.

...
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000008
...
Call trace:
crypto_unregister_alg+0x68/0xfc
crypto_unregister_skciphers+0x44/0x60
otx2_cpt_crypto_exit+0x100/0x1a0
otx2_cptvf_remove+0xf8/0x200
pci_device_remove+0x3c/0xd4
__device_release_driver+0x188/0x234
device_release_driver+0x2c/0x4c
...

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-49262 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.33, 5.16.19, 5.17.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-49262" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-49262 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.15.33, 5.16.19, 5.17.2 — 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 5.15.33, 5.16.19, 5.17.2.

🛡️ 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 5.15.33, 5.16.19, 5.17.2
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.33, 5.16.19, 5.17.2 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":"5.15.33"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"5.16.19"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.17.0"},{"fixed":"5.17.2"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49262 linux Fixed in: 5.17.3-1