Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49838)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49838). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.156, 5.15.81, 6.0.10 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

sctp: clear out_curr if all frag chunks of current msg are pruned

A crash was reported by Zhen Chen:

list_del corruption, ffffa035ddf01c18->next is NULL
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 250682 at lib/list_debug.c:49 __list_del_entry_valid+0x59/0xe0
RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid+0x59/0xe0
Call Trace:
sctp_sched_dequeue_common+0x17/0x70 [sctp]
sctp_sched_fcfs_dequeue+0x37/0x50 [sctp]
sctp_outq_flush_data+0x85/0x360 [sctp]
sctp_outq_uncork+0x77/0xa0 [sctp]
sctp_cmd_interpreter.constprop.0+0x164/0x1450 [sctp]
sctp_side_effects+0x37/0xe0 [sctp]
sctp_do_sm+0xd0/0x230 [sctp]
sctp_primitive_SEND+0x2f/0x40 [sctp]
sctp_sendmsg_to_asoc+0x3fa/0x5c0 [sctp]
sctp_sendmsg+0x3d5/0x440 [sctp]
sock_sendmsg+0x5b/0x70

and in sctp_sched_fcfs_dequeue() it dequeued a chunk from stream
out_curr outq while this outq was empty.

Normally stream->out_curr must be set to NULL once all frag chunks of
current msg are dequeued, as we can see in sctp_sched_dequeue_done().
However, in sctp_prsctp_prune_unsent() as it is not a proper dequeue,
sctp_sched_dequeue_done() is not called to do this.

This patch is to fix it by simply setting out_curr to NULL when the
last frag chunk of current msg is dequeued from out_curr stream in
sctp_prsctp_prune_unsent().

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-49838 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.156, 5.15.81, 6.0.10 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-49838" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-49838 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.10.156, 5.15.81, 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, 5.15.81, 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, 5.15.81, 6.0.10
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.156, 5.15.81, 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":"4.15.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.156"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.81"}]},{"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-2022-49838 linux Fixed in: 5.10.158-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49838 linux-azure