Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49507)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49507). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 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:

regulator: da9121: Fix uninit-value in da9121_assign_chip_model()

KASAN report slab-out-of-bounds in __regmap_init as follows:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in __regmap_init drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c:841
Read of size 1 at addr ffff88803678cdf1 by task xrun/9137

CPU: 0 PID: 9137 Comm: xrun Tainted: G W 5.18.0-rc2
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:

dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x15a lib/dump_stack.c:88
print_report.cold+0xcd/0x69b mm/kasan/report.c:313
kasan_report+0x8e/0xc0 mm/kasan/report.c:491
__regmap_init+0x4540/0x4ba0 drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c:841
__devm_regmap_init+0x7a/0x100 drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c:1266
__devm_regmap_init_i2c+0x65/0x80 drivers/base/regmap/regmap-i2c.c:394
da9121_i2c_probe+0x386/0x6d1 drivers/regulator/da9121-regulator.c:1039
i2c_device_probe+0x959/0xac0 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:563

This happend when da9121 device is probe by da9121_i2c_id, but with
invalid dts. Thus, chip->subvariant_id is set to -EINVAL, and later
da9121_assign_chip_model() will access 'regmap' without init it.

Fix it by return -EINVAL from da9121_assign_chip_model() if
'chip->subvariant_id' is invalid.

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-49507 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.46, 5.17.14, 5.18.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-49507" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-49507 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 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: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 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 5.15.46, 5.17.14, 5.18.3
```
ステージング環境で 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":"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-2022-49507 linux Fixed in: 5.18.5-1