Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49891)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49891). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.154, 5.15.78, 6.0.8 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

tracing: kprobe: Fix memory leak in test_gen_kprobe/kretprobe_cmd()

test_gen_kprobe_cmd() only free buf in fail path, hence buf will leak
when there is no failure. Move kfree(buf) from fail path to common path
to prevent the memleak. The same reason and solution in
test_gen_kretprobe_cmd().

unreferenced object 0xffff888143b14000 (size 2048):
comm "insmod", pid 52490, jiffies 4301890980 (age 40.553s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
70 3a 6b 70 72 6f 62 65 73 2f 67 65 6e 5f 6b 70 p:kprobes/gen_kp
72 6f 62 65 5f 74 65 73 74 20 64 6f 5f 73 79 73 robe_test do_sys
backtrace:
[<000000006d7b836b>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0xa0
[<0000000009528b5b>] 0xffffffffa059006f
[<000000008408b580>] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2a0
[<00000000c4980a7e>] do_init_module+0xdf/0x320
[<00000000d775aad0>] load_module+0x3006/0x3390
[<00000000e9a74b80>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x113/0x1b0
[<000000003726480d>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
[<000000003441e93b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-49891 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.154, 5.15.78, 6.0.8 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-49891" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-49891 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 5.10.154, 5.15.78, 6.0.8 — 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 5.10.154, 5.15.78, 6.0.8.

🛡️ 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 5.10.154, 5.15.78, 6.0.8
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.154, 5.15.78, 6.0.8 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":"5.6.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.154"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.78"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.0.8"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49891 linux Fixed in: 5.10.158-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49891 linux-hwe-edge