Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49830)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49830). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 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:

drm/drv: Fix potential memory leak in drm_dev_init()

drm_dev_init() will add drm_dev_init_release() as a callback. When
drmm_add_action() failed, the release function won't be added. As the
result, the ref cnt added by device_get() in drm_dev_init() won't be put
by drm_dev_init_release(), which leads to the memleak. Use
drmm_add_action_or_reset() instead of drmm_add_action() to prevent
memleak.

unreferenced object 0xffff88810bc0c800 (size 2048):
comm "modprobe", pid 8322, jiffies 4305809845 (age 15.292s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
e8 cc c0 0b 81 88 ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 ................
20 24 3c 0c 81 88 ff ff 18 c8 c0 0b 81 88 ff ff $<.............
backtrace:
[<000000007251f72d>] __kmalloc+0x4b/0x1c0
[<0000000045f21f26>] platform_device_alloc+0x2d/0xe0
[<000000004452a479>] platform_device_register_full+0x24/0x1c0
[<0000000089f4ea61>] 0xffffffffa0736051
[<00000000235b2441>] do_one_initcall+0x7a/0x380
[<0000000001a4a177>] do_init_module+0x5c/0x230
[<000000002bf8a8e2>] load_module+0x227d/0x2420
[<00000000637d6d0a>] __do_sys_finit_module+0xd5/0x140
[<00000000c99fc324>] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90
[<000000004d85aa77>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-49830 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.156, 5.15.80, 6.0.10 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-49830" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-49830 (Kernel)
Patched: 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 5.10.156, 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 5.10.156, 5.15.80, 6.0.10
```
ステージング環境で 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":"5.8.0"},{"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-2022-49830 linux Fixed in: 5.10.158-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49830 linux-hwe-edge