Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49837)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49837). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 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:

bpf: Fix memory leaks in __check_func_call

kmemleak reports this issue:

unreferenced object 0xffff88817139d000 (size 2048):
comm "test_progs", pid 33246, jiffies 4307381979 (age 45851.820s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
01 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:
[<0000000045f075f0>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0xa0
[<0000000098b7c90a>] __check_func_call+0x316/0x1230
[<00000000b4c3c403>] check_helper_call+0x172e/0x4700
[<00000000aa3875b7>] do_check+0x21d8/0x45e0
[<000000001147357b>] do_check_common+0x767/0xaf0
[<00000000b5a595b4>] bpf_check+0x43e3/0x5bc0
[<0000000011e391b1>] bpf_prog_load+0xf26/0x1940
[<0000000007f765c0>] __sys_bpf+0xd2c/0x3650
[<00000000839815d6>] __x64_sys_bpf+0x75/0xc0
[<00000000946ee250>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
[<0000000000506b7f>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

The root case here is: In function prepare_func_exit(), the callee is
not released in the abnormal scenario after "state->curframe--;". To
fix, move "state->curframe--;" to the very bottom of the function,
right when we free callee and reset frame[] pointer to NULL, as Andrii
suggested.

In addition, function __check_func_call() has a similar problem. In
the abnormal scenario before "state->curframe++;", the callee also
should be released by free_func_state().

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-49837 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.80, 6.0.10 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-49837" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-49837 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 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 5.15.80, 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 5.15.80, 6.0.10
```
ステージング環境で 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":"4.20.0"},{"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-2022-49837 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49837 linux-hwe-edge