Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49703)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49703). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.51, 5.18.8 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

scsi: ibmvfc: Store vhost pointer during subcrq allocation

Currently the back pointer from a queue to the vhost adapter isn't set
until after subcrq interrupt registration. The value is available when a
queue is first allocated and can/should be also set for primary and async
queues as well as subcrqs.

This fixes a crash observed during kexec/kdump on Power 9 with legacy XICS
interrupt controller where a pending subcrq interrupt from the previous
kernel can be replayed immediately upon IRQ registration resulting in
dereference of a garbage backpointer in ibmvfc_interrupt_scsi().

Kernel attempted to read user page (58) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)
BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000058
Faulting instruction address: 0xc008000003216a08
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
...
NIP [c008000003216a08] ibmvfc_interrupt_scsi+0x40/0xb0 [ibmvfc]
LR [c0000000082079e8] __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x98/0x270
Call Trace:
[c000000047fa3d80] [c0000000123e6180] 0xc0000000123e6180 (unreliable)
[c000000047fa3df0] [c0000000082079e8] __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x98/0x270
[c000000047fa3ea0] [c000000008207d18] handle_irq_event+0x98/0x188
[c000000047fa3ef0] [c00000000820f564] handle_fasteoi_irq+0xc4/0x310
[c000000047fa3f40] [c000000008205c60] generic_handle_irq+0x50/0x80
[c000000047fa3f60] [c000000008015c40] __do_irq+0x70/0x1a0
[c000000047fa3f90] [c000000008016d7c] __do_IRQ+0x9c/0x130
[c000000014622f60]…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-49703 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.51, 5.18.8 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-49703" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-49703 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 5.15.51, 5.18.8 — 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 5.15.51, 5.18.8.

🛡️ 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 5.15.51, 5.18.8
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.51, 5.18.8 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":"5.15.51"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"5.18.8"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49703 linux Fixed in: 5.18.14-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49703 linux-hwe-edge