Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49878)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49878). 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:

bpf, verifier: Fix memory leak in array reallocation for stack state

If an error (NULL) is returned by krealloc(), callers of realloc_array()
were setting their allocation pointers to NULL, but on error krealloc()
does not touch the original allocation. This would result in a memory
resource leak. Instead, free the old allocation on the error handling
path.

The memory leak information is as follows as also reported by Zhengchao:

unreferenced object 0xffff888019801800 (size 256):
comm "bpf_repo", pid 6490, jiffies 4294959200 (age 17.170s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<00000000b211474b>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x45/0xc0
[<0000000086712a0b>] krealloc+0x83/0xd0
[<00000000139aab02>] realloc_array+0x82/0xe2
[<00000000b1ca41d1>] grow_stack_state+0xfb/0x186
[<00000000cd6f36d2>] check_mem_access.cold+0x141/0x1341
[<0000000081780455>] do_check_common+0x5358/0xb350
[<0000000015f6b091>] bpf_check.cold+0xc3/0x29d
[<000000002973c690>] bpf_prog_load+0x13db/0x2240
[<00000000028d1644>] __sys_bpf+0x1605/0x4ce0
[<00000000053f29bd>] __x64_sys_bpf+0x75/0xb0
[<0000000056fedaf5>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
[<000000002bd58261>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-49878 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-2022-49878" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-49878 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
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":"5.14.0"},{"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-2022-49878 linux Fixed in: 6.0.10-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49878 linux-hwe-edge