Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49871)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49871). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 4.19.267, 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:

net: tun: Fix memory leaks of napi_get_frags

kmemleak reports after running test_progs:

unreferenced object 0xffff8881b1672dc0 (size 232):
comm "test_progs", pid 394388, jiffies 4354712116 (age 841.975s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
e0 84 d7 a8 81 88 ff ff 80 2c 67 b1 81 88 ff ff .........,g.....
00 40 c5 9b 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .@..............
backtrace:
[<00000000c8f01748>] napi_skb_cache_get+0xd4/0x150
[<0000000041c7fc09>] __napi_build_skb+0x15/0x50
[<00000000431c7079>] __napi_alloc_skb+0x26e/0x540
[<000000003ecfa30e>] napi_get_frags+0x59/0x140
[<0000000099b2199e>] tun_get_user+0x183d/0x3bb0 [tun]
[<000000008a5adef0>] tun_chr_write_iter+0xc0/0x1b1 [tun]
[<0000000049993ff4>] do_iter_readv_writev+0x19f/0x320
[<000000008f338ea2>] do_iter_write+0x135/0x630
[<000000008a3377a4>] vfs_writev+0x12e/0x440
[<00000000a6b5639a>] do_writev+0x104/0x280
[<00000000ccf065d8>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
[<00000000d776e329>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

The issue occurs in the following scenarios:
tun_get_user()
napi_gro_frags()
napi_frags_finish()
case GRO_NORMAL:
gro_normal_one()
list_add_tail(&skb->list, &napi->rx_list);
<-- While napi->rx_count < READ_ONCE(gro_normal_batch),
<-- gro_normal_list() is not called, napi->rx_list is not empty
<-- not ask to complete the gro work, will c…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-49871 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 4.19.267, 5.4.225, 5.10.155, 5.15.79, 6.0.9 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-49871" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-49871 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 4.19.267, 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 4.19.267, 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 4.19.267, 5.4.225, 5.10.155, 5.15.79, 6.0.9
```
ステージング環境で 4.19.267, 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":"4.15.0"},{"fixed":"4.19.267"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.20.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.225"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.155"}]},{"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-2022-49871 linux Fixed in: 5.10.158-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49871 linux-azure Fixed in: 4.15.0-1162.177~14.04.1