Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49476)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49476). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. 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:

mt76: mt7921: fix kernel crash at mt7921_pci_remove

The crash log shown it is possible that mt7921_irq_handler is called while
devm_free_irq is being handled so mt76_free_device need to be postponed
until devm_free_irq is completed to solve the crash we free the mt76 device
too early.

[ 9299.339655] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
[ 9299.339705] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 9299.339735] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 9299.339768] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 9299.339786] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
[ 9299.339812] CPU: 1 PID: 1624 Comm: prepare-suspend Not tainted 5.15.14-1.fc32.qubes.x86_64 #1
[ 9299.339863] Hardware name: Xen HVM domU, BIOS 4.14.3 01/20/2022
[ 9299.339901] RIP: 0010:mt7921_irq_handler+0x1e/0x70 [mt7921e]
[ 9299.340048] RSP: 0018:ffffa81b80c27cb0 EFLAGS: 00010082
[ 9299.340081] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff98a4cb752020 RCX: ffffffffa96211c5
[ 9299.340123] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000d4204 RDI: ffff98a4cb752020
[ 9299.340165] RBP: ffff98a4c28a62a4 R08: ffff98a4c37a96c0 R09: 0000000080150011
[ 9299.340207] R10: 0000000040000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff98a4c4eaa080
[ 9299.340249] R13: ffff98a4c28a6360 R14: ffff98a4cb752020 R15: ffff98a4c28a6228
[ 9299.340297] FS: 00007260840d3740(0000) GS:ffff98a4ef700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 9299.340345] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 9299.340383] CR2: 000000000000000…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-49476 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.17.14, 5.18.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-49476" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-49476 (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: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 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":"5.12.0"},{"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-2022-49476 linux Fixed in: 5.18.5-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49476 linux-hwe-edge