Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49592)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49592). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 4.14.290, 4.19.254, 5.4.208, 5.10.134, 5.15.58, 5.18.15 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

net: stmmac: fix dma queue left shift overflow issue

When queue number is > 4, left shift overflows due to 32 bits
integer variable. Mask calculation is wrong for MTL_RXQ_DMA_MAP1.

If CONFIG_UBSAN is enabled, kernel dumps below warning:
[ 10.363842] ==================================================================
[ 10.363882] UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in /build/linux-intel-iotg-5.15-8e6Tf4/
linux-intel-iotg-5.15-5.15.0/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_core.c:224:12
[ 10.363929] shift exponent 40 is too large for 32-bit type 'unsigned int'
[ 10.363953] CPU: 1 PID: 599 Comm: NetworkManager Not tainted 5.15.0-1003-intel-iotg
[ 10.363956] Hardware name: ADLINK Technology Inc. LEC-EL/LEC-EL, BIOS 0.15.11 12/22/2021
[ 10.363958] Call Trace:
[ 10.363960]
[ 10.363963] dump_stack_lvl+0x4a/0x5f
[ 10.363971] dump_stack+0x10/0x12
[ 10.363974] ubsan_epilogue+0x9/0x45
[ 10.363976] __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds.cold+0x61/0x10e
[ 10.363979] ? wake_up_klogd+0x4a/0x50
[ 10.363983] ? vprintk_emit+0x8f/0x240
[ 10.363986] dwmac4_map_mtl_dma.cold+0x42/0x91 [stmmac]
[ 10.364001] stmmac_mtl_configuration+0x1ce/0x7a0 [stmmac]
[ 10.364009] ? dwmac410_dma_init_channel+0x70/0x70 [stmmac]
[ 10.364020] stmmac_hw_setup.cold+0xf/0xb14 [stmmac]
[ 10.364030] ? page_pool_alloc_pages+0x4d/0x70
[ 10.364034] ? stmmac_clear_tx_descriptors+0x6e/0xe0 [stmmac]
[ 10.364042] st…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-49592 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 4.14.290, 4.19.254, 5.4.208, 5.10.134, 5.15.58, 5.18.15 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-49592" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-49592 (Kernel)
Patched: 4.14.290, 4.19.254, 5.4.208, 5.10.134, 5.15.58, 5.18.15 — 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 4.14.290, 4.19.254, 5.4.208, 5.10.134, 5.15.58, 5.18.15.

🛡️ 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 4.14.290, 4.19.254, 5.4.208, 5.10.134, 5.15.58, 5.18.15
```
ステージング環境で 4.14.290, 4.19.254, 5.4.208, 5.10.134, 5.15.58, 5.18.15 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":"4.12.0"},{"fixed":"4.14.290"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.15.0"},{"fixed":"4.19.254"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.20.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.208"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.134"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.58"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"5.18.15"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49592 linux Fixed in: 5.10.136-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49592 linux-azure Fixed in: 4.15.0-1157.172~14.04.2