Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49869)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49869). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.4.225, 5.10.155, 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:

bnxt_en: Fix possible crash in bnxt_hwrm_set_coal()

During the error recovery sequence, the rtnl_lock is not held for the
entire duration and some datastructures may be freed during the sequence.
Check for the BNXT_STATE_OPEN flag instead of netif_running() to ensure
that the device is fully operational before proceeding to reconfigure
the coalescing settings.

This will fix a possible crash like this:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
CPU: 10 PID: 181276 Comm: ethtool Kdump: loaded Tainted: G IOE --------- - - 4.18.0-348.el8.x86_64 #1
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R740/0F9N89, BIOS 2.3.10 08/15/2019
RIP: 0010:bnxt_hwrm_set_coal+0x1fb/0x2a0 [bnxt_en]
Code: c2 66 83 4e 22 08 66 89 46 1c e8 10 cb 00 00 41 83 c6 01 44 39 b3 68 01 00 00 0f 8e a3 00 00 00 48 8b 93 c8 00 00 00 49 63 c6 <48> 8b 2c c2 48 8b 85 b8 02 00 00 48 85 c0 74 2e 48 8b 74 24 08 f6
RSP: 0018:ffffb11c8dcaba50 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8d168a8b0ac0 RCX: 00000000000000c5
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8d162f72c000 RDI: ffff8d168a8b0b28
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: b6e1f68a12e9a7eb R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000037 R12: ffff8d168a8b109c
R13: ffff8d168a8b10aa R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffffffc01ac4e0
FS: 00007f3852e4c740(0000) GS:ffff8d24c0080000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES:…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-49869 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.4.225, 5.10.155, 5.15.79, 6.0.9 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-49869" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-49869 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 5.4.225, 5.10.155, 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 5.4.225, 5.10.155, 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 5.4.225, 5.10.155, 5.15.79, 6.0.9
```
ステージング環境で 5.4.225, 5.10.155, 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":"5.4.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.225"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.155"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"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-2022-49869 linux Fixed in: 5.10.158-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49869 linux-hwe-edge