Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49807)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49807). 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:

nvmet: fix a memory leak in nvmet_auth_set_key

When changing dhchap secrets we need to release the old
secrets as well.

kmemleak complaint:

unreferenced object 0xffff8c7f44ed8180 (size 64):
comm "check", pid 7304, jiffies 4295686133 (age 72034.246s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
44 48 48 43 2d 31 3a 30 30 3a 4c 64 4c 4f 64 71 DHHC-1:00:LdLOdq
79 56 69 67 77 48 55 32 6d 5a 59 4c 7a 35 59 38 yVigwHU2mZYLz5Y8
backtrace:
[<00000000b6fc5071>] kstrdup+0x2e/0x60
[<00000000f0f4633f>] 0xffffffffc0e07ee6
[<0000000053006c05>] 0xffffffffc0dff783
[<00000000419ae922>] configfs_write_iter+0xb1/0x120
[<000000008183c424>] vfs_write+0x2be/0x3c0
[<000000009005a2a5>] ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0
[<00000000cd495c89>] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90
[<00000000f2a84ac5>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-49807 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-2022-49807" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-49807 (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-2022-49807 linux Fixed in: 6.0.10-1