Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49341)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49341). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 4.19.247, 5.4.198, 5.10.122, 5.15.47, 5.17.15, 5.18.4 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

bpf, arm64: Clear prog->jited_len along prog->jited

syzbot reported an illegal copy_to_user() attempt
from bpf_prog_get_info_by_fd() [1]

There was no repro yet on this bug, but I think
that commit 0aef499f3172 ("mm/usercopy: Detect vmalloc overruns")
is exposing a prior bug in bpf arm64.

bpf_prog_get_info_by_fd() looks at prog->jited_len
to determine if the JIT image can be copied out to user space.

My theory is that syzbot managed to get a prog where prog->jited_len
has been set to 43, while prog->bpf_func has ben cleared.

It is not clear why copy_to_user(uinsns, NULL, ulen) is triggering
this particular warning.

I thought find_vma_area(NULL) would not find a vm_struct.
As we do not hold vmap_area_lock spinlock, it might be possible
that the found vm_struct was garbage.

[1]
usercopy: Kernel memory exposure attempt detected from vmalloc (offset 792633534417210172, size 43)!
kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:101!
Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 25002 Comm: syz-executor.1 Not tainted 5.18.0-syzkaller-10139-g8291eaafed36 #0
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : usercopy_abort+0x90/0x94 mm/usercopy.c:101
lr : usercopy_abort+0x90/0x94 mm/usercopy.c:89
sp : ffff80000b773a20
x29: ffff80000b773a30 x28: faff80000b745000 x27: ffff80000b773b48
x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 000000000000002b x24: 00000000000000…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-49341 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 4.19.247, 5.4.198, 5.10.122, 5.15.47, 5.17.15, 5.18.4 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-49341" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-49341 (Kernel)
Patched: 4.19.247, 5.4.198, 5.10.122, 5.15.47, 5.17.15, 5.18.4 — 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 4.19.247, 5.4.198, 5.10.122, 5.15.47, 5.17.15, 5.18.4.

🛡️ 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 4.19.247, 5.4.198, 5.10.122, 5.15.47, 5.17.15, 5.18.4
```
ステージング環境で 4.19.247, 5.4.198, 5.10.122, 5.15.47, 5.17.15, 5.18.4 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":"4.16.0"},{"fixed":"4.19.247"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.20.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.198"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.122"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.47"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"5.17.15"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.18.0"},{"fixed":"5.18.4"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49341 linux Fixed in: 5.10.127-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49341 linux-hwe-edge