Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49265)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49265). 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:

PM: domains: Fix sleep-in-atomic bug caused by genpd_debug_remove()

When a genpd with GENPD_FLAG_IRQ_SAFE gets removed, the following
sleep-in-atomic bug will be seen, as genpd_debug_remove() will be called
with a spinlock being held.

[ 0.029183] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1460
[ 0.029204] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 128, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper/0
[ 0.029219] preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
[ 0.029230] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.17.0-rc4+ #489
[ 0.029245] Hardware name: Thundercomm TurboX CM2290 (DT)
[ 0.029256] Call trace:
[ 0.029265] dump_backtrace.part.0+0xbc/0xd0
[ 0.029285] show_stack+0x3c/0xa0
[ 0.029298] dump_stack_lvl+0x7c/0xa0
[ 0.029311] dump_stack+0x18/0x34
[ 0.029323] __might_resched+0x10c/0x13c
[ 0.029338] __might_sleep+0x4c/0x80
[ 0.029351] down_read+0x24/0xd0
[ 0.029363] lookup_one_len_unlocked+0x9c/0xcc
[ 0.029379] lookup_positive_unlocked+0x10/0x50
[ 0.029392] debugfs_lookup+0x68/0xac
[ 0.029406] genpd_remove.part.0+0x12c/0x1b4
[ 0.029419] of_genpd_remove_last+0xa8/0xd4
[ 0.029434] psci_cpuidle_domain_probe+0x174/0x53c
[ 0.029449] platform_probe+0x68/0xe0
[ 0.029462] really_probe+0x190/0x430
[ 0.029473] __driver_probe_device+0x90/0x18c
[ 0.029485] driver_probe_device+0x40/0xe0
[ 0.029497] __driver_attach+0xf4/0x1d0
[…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-49265 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-2022-49265" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-49265 (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":"5.11.0"},{"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-2022-49265 linux Fixed in: 5.17.3-1