Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49841)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49841). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 4.19.267, 5.4.225, 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:

serial: imx: Add missing .thaw_noirq hook

The following warning is seen with non-console UART instance when
system hibernates.

[ 37.371969] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 37.376599] uart3_root_clk already disabled
[ 37.380810] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 296 at drivers/clk/clk.c:952 clk_core_disable+0xa4/0xb0
...
[ 37.506986] Call trace:
[ 37.509432] clk_core_disable+0xa4/0xb0
[ 37.513270] clk_disable+0x34/0x50
[ 37.516672] imx_uart_thaw+0x38/0x5c
[ 37.520250] platform_pm_thaw+0x30/0x6c
[ 37.524089] dpm_run_callback.constprop.0+0x3c/0xd4
[ 37.528972] device_resume+0x7c/0x160
[ 37.532633] dpm_resume+0xe8/0x230
[ 37.536036] hibernation_snapshot+0x288/0x430
[ 37.540397] hibernate+0x10c/0x2e0
[ 37.543798] state_store+0xc4/0xd0
[ 37.547203] kobj_attr_store+0x1c/0x30
[ 37.550953] sysfs_kf_write+0x48/0x60
[ 37.554619] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x118/0x1ac
[ 37.559063] new_sync_write+0xe8/0x184
[ 37.562812] vfs_write+0x230/0x290
[ 37.566214] ksys_write+0x68/0xf4
[ 37.569529] __arm64_sys_write+0x20/0x2c
[ 37.573452] invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x50/0xf0
[ 37.578156] do_el0_svc+0x11c/0x150
[ 37.581648] el0_svc+0x30/0x140
[ 37.584792] el0t_64_sync_handler+0xe8/0xf0
[ 37.588976] el0t_64_sync+0x1a0/0x1a4
[ 37.592639] ---[ end trace 56e22eec54676d75 ]---

On hibernating, pm core calls into related hooks in sequence like:

.freeze
.freeze_noi…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-49841 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 4.19.267, 5.4.225, 5.10.156, 5.15.80, 6.0.10 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-49841" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-49841 (Kernel)
Patched: 4.19.267, 5.4.225, 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 4.19.267, 5.4.225, 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 4.19.267, 5.4.225, 5.10.156, 5.15.80, 6.0.10
```
ステージング環境で 4.19.267, 5.4.225, 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":"4.16.0"},{"fixed":"4.19.267"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.20.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.225"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"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-2022-49841 linux Fixed in: 5.10.158-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49841 linux-hwe-edge