Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49271)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49271). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.110, 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:

cifs: prevent bad output lengths in smb2_ioctl_query_info()

When calling smb2_ioctl_query_info() with
smb_query_info::flags=PASSTHRU_FSCTL and
smb_query_info::output_buffer_length=0, the following would return
0x10

buffer = memdup_user(arg + sizeof(struct smb_query_info),
		     qi.output_buffer_length);
if (IS_ERR(buffer)) {
	kfree(vars);
	return PTR_ERR(buffer);
}

rather than a valid pointer thus making IS_ERR() check fail. This
would then cause a NULL ptr deference in @buffer when accessing it
later in smb2_ioctl_query_ioctl(). While at it, prevent having a
@buffer smaller than 8 bytes to correctly handle SMB2_SET_INFO
FileEndOfFileInformation requests when
smb_query_info::flags=PASSTHRU_SET_INFO.

Here is a small C reproducer which triggers a NULL ptr in @buffer when
passing an invalid smb_query_info::flags

#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 

#define die(s) perror(s), exit(1)
#define QUERY_INFO 0xc018cf07

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	int fd;

	if (argc < 2)
		exit(1);
	fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY);
	if (fd == -1)
		die("open");
	if (ioctl(fd, QUERY_INFO, (uint32_t[]) { 0, 0, 0, 4, 0, 0}) == -1)
		die("ioctl");
	close(fd);
	return 0;
}

mount.cifs //srv/share /mnt -o ...
gcc repro.c && ./a.out /mnt/f0

[  114.138620] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
[  114…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-49271 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.110, 5.15.33, 5.16.19, 5.17.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-49271" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-49271 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.10.110, 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 5.10.110, 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 5.10.110, 5.15.33, 5.16.19, 5.17.2
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.110, 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":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.110"}]},{"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-2022-49271 linux Fixed in: 5.10.113-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49271 linux