Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49706)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49706). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.125, 5.15.50, 5.18.7 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

zonefs: fix zonefs_iomap_begin() for reads

If a readahead is issued to a sequential zone file with an offset
exactly equal to the current file size, the iomap type is set to
IOMAP_UNWRITTEN, which will prevent an IO, but the iomap length is
calculated as 0. This causes a WARN_ON() in iomap_iter():

[17309.548939] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 2137 at fs/iomap/iter.c:34 iomap_iter+0x9cf/0xe80
[...]
[17309.650907] RIP: 0010:iomap_iter+0x9cf/0xe80
[...]
[17309.754560] Call Trace:
[17309.757078]
[17309.759240] ? lock_is_held_type+0xd8/0x130
[17309.763531] iomap_readahead+0x1a8/0x870
[17309.767550] ? iomap_read_folio+0x4c0/0x4c0
[17309.771817] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x400/0x400
[17309.778848] ? lock_release+0x370/0x750
[17309.784462] ? folio_add_lru+0x217/0x3f0
[17309.790220] ? reacquire_held_locks+0x4e0/0x4e0
[17309.796543] read_pages+0x17d/0xb60
[17309.801854] ? folio_add_lru+0x238/0x3f0
[17309.807573] ? readahead_expand+0x5f0/0x5f0
[17309.813554] ? policy_node+0xb5/0x140
[17309.819018] page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x27d/0x450
[17309.825439] filemap_get_pages+0x500/0x1450
[17309.831444] ? filemap_add_folio+0x140/0x140
[17309.837519] ? lock_is_held_type+0xd8/0x130
[17309.843509] filemap_read+0x28c/0x9f0
[17309.848953] ? zonefs_file_read_iter+0x1ea/0x4d0 [zonefs]
[17309.856162] ? trace_contention_end+0xd6/0x130
[17309.862416] ? __mutex_lock+0x221/0x1480
[17309.868151] ? zonefs_file_read_iter+0x166…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-49706 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.125, 5.15.50, 5.18.7 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-49706" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-49706 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.10.125, 5.15.50, 5.18.7 — 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 5.10.125, 5.15.50, 5.18.7.

🛡️ 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 5.10.125, 5.15.50, 5.18.7
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.125, 5.15.50, 5.18.7 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":"5.6.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.125"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.50"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"5.18.7"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49706 linux Fixed in: 5.10.127-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49706 linux-hwe-edge