Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49529)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49529). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.18.3 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

drm/amdgpu/pm: fix the null pointer while the smu is disabled

It needs to check if the pp_funcs is initialized while release the
context, otherwise it will trigger null pointer panic while the software
smu is not enabled.

[ 1109.404555] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000078
[ 1109.404609] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 1109.404638] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 1109.404657] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 1109.404672] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[ 1109.404701] CPU: 7 PID: 9150 Comm: amdgpu_test Tainted: G OEL 5.16.0-custom #1
[ 1109.404732] Hardware name: innotek GmbH VirtualBox/VirtualBox, BIOS VirtualBox 12/01/2006
[ 1109.404765] RIP: 0010:amdgpu_dpm_force_performance_level+0x1d/0x170 [amdgpu]
[ 1109.405109] Code: 5d c3 44 8b a3 f0 80 00 00 eb e5 66 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 83 ec 08 4c 8b b7 f0 7d 00 00 <49> 83 7e 78 00 0f 84 f2 00 00 00 80 bf 87 80 00 00 00 48 89 fb 0f
[ 1109.405176] RSP: 0018:ffffaf3083ad7c20 EFLAGS: 00010282
[ 1109.405203] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9796b1c14600 RCX: 0000000002862007
[ 1109.405229] RDX: ffff97968591c8c0 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff9796a3700000
[ 1109.405260] RBP: ffffaf3083ad7c50 R08: ffffffff9897de00 R09: ffff979688d9db60
[ 1109.405286] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff979688d9db90 R12: 0000000000000001
[ 1109.405316] R13: ffff9796a3700000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff97…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-49529 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.18.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-49529" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-49529 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 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 5.18.3.

🛡️ 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 5.18.3
```
ステージング環境で 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":"5.18.0"},{"fixed":"5.18.3"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49529 linux Fixed in: 5.18.5-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49529 linux