Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49779)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49779). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.4.225, 5.10.156, 5.15.80, 6.0.10 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

kprobes: Skip clearing aggrprobe's post_handler in kprobe-on-ftrace case

In __unregister_kprobe_top(), if the currently unregistered probe has
post_handler but other child probes of the aggrprobe do not have
post_handler, the post_handler of the aggrprobe is cleared. If this is
a ftrace-based probe, there is a problem. In later calls to
disarm_kprobe(), we will use kprobe_ftrace_ops because post_handler is
NULL. But we're armed with kprobe_ipmodify_ops. This triggers a WARN in
__disarm_kprobe_ftrace() and may even cause use-after-free:

Failed to disarm kprobe-ftrace at kernel_clone+0x0/0x3c0 (error -2)
WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 137 at kernel/kprobes.c:1135 __disarm_kprobe_ftrace.isra.21+0xcf/0xe0
Modules linked in: testKprobe_007(-)
CPU: 5 PID: 137 Comm: rmmod Not tainted 6.1.0-rc4-dirty #18
[...]
Call Trace:

__disable_kprobe+0xcd/0xe0
__unregister_kprobe_top+0x12/0x150
? mutex_lock+0xe/0x30
unregister_kprobes.part.23+0x31/0xa0
unregister_kprobe+0x32/0x40
__x64_sys_delete_module+0x15e/0x260
? do_user_addr_fault+0x2cd/0x6b0
do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
[...]

For the kprobe-on-ftrace case, we keep the post_handler setting to
identify this aggrprobe armed with kprobe_ipmodify_ops. This way we
can disarm it correctly.

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-49779 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.4.225, 5.10.156, 5.15.80, 6.0.10 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-49779" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-49779 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.4.225, 5.10.156, 5.15.80, 6.0.10 — 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 5.4.225, 5.10.156, 5.15.80, 6.0.10.

🛡️ 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 5.4.225, 5.10.156, 5.15.80, 6.0.10
```
ステージング環境で 5.4.225, 5.10.156, 5.15.80, 6.0.10 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":"5.4.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.225"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.156"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.80"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.0.10"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49779 linux Fixed in: 5.10.158-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49779 linux-hwe-edge