Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49810)
Summary
Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49810). 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:
netfs: Fix missing xas_retry() calls in xarray iteration
netfslib has a number of places in which it performs iteration of an xarray
whilst being under the RCU read lock. It should call xas_retry() as the
first thing inside of the loop and do "continue" if it returns true in case
the xarray walker passed out a special value indicating that the walk needs
to be redone from the root[*].
Fix this by adding the missing retry checks.
[*] I wonder if this should be done inside xas_find(), xas_next_node() and
suchlike, but I'm told that's not an simple change to effect.
This can cause an oops like that below. Note the faulting address - this
is an internal value (|0x2) returned from xarray.
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000402
...
RIP: 0010:netfs_rreq_unlock+0xef/0x380 [netfs]
...
Call Trace:
netfs_rreq_assess+0xa6/0x240 [netfs]
netfs_readpage+0x173/0x3b0 [netfs]
? init_wait_var_entry+0x50/0x50
filemap_read_page+0x33/0xf0
filemap_get_pages+0x2f2/0x3f0
filemap_read+0xaa/0x320
? do_filp_open+0xb2/0x150
? rmqueue+0x3be/0xe10
ceph_read_iter+0x1fe/0x680 [ceph]
? new_sync_read+0x115/0x1a0
new_sync_read+0x115/0x1a0
vfs_read+0xf3/0x180
ksys_read+0x5f/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
Changes:
ver #2)
- Changed an unsigned int to a size_t to reduce the likelihood of an
overflow as per Willy's suggestion. - Added an addi…
Auto-generated summary
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-49810 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-2022-49810" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2022-49810 (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.
A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Kernel.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Kernel.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 6.0.10.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
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
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1Identify 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。 -
2Apply 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。
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3Post-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
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49810 linux Fixed in: 6.0.10-1
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49810 linux-hwe-edge
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org