Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49784)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49784). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.0.10 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

perf/x86/amd/uncore: Fix memory leak for events array

When a CPU comes online, the per-CPU NB and LLC uncore contexts are
freed but not the events array within the context structure. This
causes a memory leak as identified by the kmemleak detector.

[...]
unreferenced object 0xffff8c5944b8e320 (size 32):
comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294670387 (age 151.072s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<000000000759fb79>] amd_uncore_cpu_up_prepare+0xaf/0x230
[<00000000ddc9e126>] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x2cf/0x470
[<0000000093e727d4>] cpuhp_issue_call+0x14d/0x170
[<0000000045464d54>] __cpuhp_setup_state_cpuslocked+0x11e/0x330
[<0000000069f67cbd>] __cpuhp_setup_state+0x6b/0x110
[<0000000015365e0f>] amd_uncore_init+0x260/0x321
[<00000000089152d2>] do_one_initcall+0x3f/0x1f0
[<000000002d0bd18d>] kernel_init_freeable+0x1ca/0x212
[<0000000030be8dde>] kernel_init+0x11/0x120
[<0000000059709e59>] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
unreferenced object 0xffff8c5944b8dd40 (size 64):
comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294670387 (age 151.072s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ...............…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-49784 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.0.10 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-49784" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-49784 (Kernel)
Patched: 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 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 6.0.10
```
ステージング環境で 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":"6.0.0"},{"fixed":"6.0.10"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49784 linux Fixed in: 6.0.10-1