Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49859)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49859). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.79, 6.0.9 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

net: lapbether: fix issue of invalid opcode in lapbeth_open()

If lapb_register() failed when lapb device goes to up for the first time,
the NAPI is not disabled. As a result, the invalid opcode issue is
reported when the lapb device goes to up for the second time.

The stack info is as follows:
[ 1958.311422][T11356] kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:6442!
[ 1958.312206][T11356] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
[ 1958.315979][T11356] RIP: 0010:napi_enable+0x16a/0x1f0
[ 1958.332310][T11356] Call Trace:
[ 1958.332817][T11356]
[ 1958.336135][T11356] lapbeth_open+0x18/0x90
[ 1958.337446][T11356] __dev_open+0x258/0x490
[ 1958.341672][T11356] __dev_change_flags+0x4d4/0x6a0
[ 1958.345325][T11356] dev_change_flags+0x93/0x160
[ 1958.346027][T11356] devinet_ioctl+0x1276/0x1bf0
[ 1958.346738][T11356] inet_ioctl+0x1c8/0x2d0
[ 1958.349638][T11356] sock_ioctl+0x5d1/0x750
[ 1958.356059][T11356] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x3ec/0x1790
[ 1958.365594][T11356] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
[ 1958.366239][T11356] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
[ 1958.377381][T11356]

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-49859 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.79, 6.0.9 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-49859" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-49859 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.15.79, 6.0.9 — 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 5.15.79, 6.0.9.

🛡️ 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 5.15.79, 6.0.9
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.79, 6.0.9 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":"5.13.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.79"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.0.9"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49859 linux Fixed in: 6.0.10-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49859 linux-hwe-edge