Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49395). Confidential information can be exposed externally. Mitigation: upgrade to 4.9.318, 4.14.283, 4.19.247, 5.4.198, 5.10.121, 5.15.46, 5.17.14, 5.18.3 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

um: Fix out-of-bounds read in LDT setup

syscall_stub_data() expects the data_count parameter to be the number of
longs, not bytes.

==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in syscall_stub_data+0x70/0xe0
Read of size 128 at addr 000000006411f6f0 by task swapper/1

CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.18.0+ #18
Call Trace:
show_stack.cold+0x166/0x2a7
__dump_stack+0x3a/0x43
dump_stack_lvl+0x1f/0x27
print_report.cold+0xdb/0xf81
kasan_report+0x119/0x1f0
kasan_check_range+0x3a3/0x440
memcpy+0x52/0x140
syscall_stub_data+0x70/0xe0
write_ldt_entry+0xac/0x190
init_new_ldt+0x515/0x960
init_new_context+0x2c4/0x4d0
mm_init.constprop.0+0x5ed/0x760
mm_alloc+0x118/0x170
0x60033f48
do_one_initcall+0x1d7/0x860
0x60003e7b
kernel_init+0x6e/0x3d4
new_thread_handler+0x1e7/0x2c0

The buggy address belongs to stack of task swapper/1
and is located at offset 64 in frame:
init_new_ldt+0x0/0x960

This frame has 2 objects:
[32, 40) 'addr'
[64, 80) 'desc'

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-49395 has been found in Kernel.
Confidential information can be exposed externally.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 4.9.318, 4.14.283, 4.19.247, 5.4.198, 5.10.121, 5.15.46, 5.17.14, 5.18.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-49395" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-49395 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 4.9.318, 4.14.283, 4.19.247, 5.4.198, 5.10.121, 5.15.46, 5.17.14, 5.18.3 — 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: ?. Confidential information can be exposed externally.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 4.9.318, 4.14.283, 4.19.247, 5.4.198, 5.10.121, 5.15.46, 5.17.14, 5.18.3.

🛡️ 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 4.9.318, 4.14.283, 4.19.247, 5.4.198, 5.10.121, 5.15.46, 5.17.14, 5.18.3
```
ステージング環境で 4.9.318, 4.14.283, 4.19.247, 5.4.198, 5.10.121, 5.15.46, 5.17.14, 5.18.3 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":"2.6.15"},{"fixed":"4.9.318"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.10.0"},{"fixed":"4.14.283"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.15.0"},{"fixed":"4.19.247"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.20.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.198"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.121"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.46"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"5.17.14"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.18.0"},{"fixed":"5.18.3"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49395 linux Fixed in: 5.10.127-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49395 linux-azure Fixed in: 4.15.0-1150.165~14.04.1