Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49464)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49464). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. Mitigation: upgrade to 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:

erofs: fix buffer copy overflow of ztailpacking feature

I got some KASAN report as below:

[ 46.959738] ==================================================================
[ 46.960430] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in z_erofs_shifted_transform+0x2bd/0x370
[ 46.960430] Read of size 4074 at addr ffff8880300c2f8e by task fssum/188
...
[ 46.960430] Call Trace:
[ 46.960430]
[ 46.960430] dump_stack_lvl+0x41/0x5e
[ 46.960430] print_report.cold+0xb2/0x6b7
[ 46.960430] ? z_erofs_shifted_transform+0x2bd/0x370
[ 46.960430] kasan_report+0x8a/0x140
[ 46.960430] ? z_erofs_shifted_transform+0x2bd/0x370
[ 46.960430] kasan_check_range+0x14d/0x1d0
[ 46.960430] memcpy+0x20/0x60
[ 46.960430] z_erofs_shifted_transform+0x2bd/0x370
[ 46.960430] z_erofs_decompress_pcluster+0xaae/0x1080

The root cause is that the tail pcluster won't be a complete filesystem
block anymore. So if ztailpacking is used, the second part of an
uncompressed tail pcluster may not be rq->pageofs_out.

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-49464 has been found in Kernel.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.17.14, 5.18.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-49464" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-49464 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 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: ?. Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 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 5.17.14, 5.18.3
```
ステージング環境で 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":"5.17.0"},{"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-2022-49464 linux Fixed in: 5.18.5-1