Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49901)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49901). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.0.8 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

blk-mq: Fix kmemleak in blk_mq_init_allocated_queue

There is a kmemleak caused by modprobe null_blk.ko

unreferenced object 0xffff8881acb1f000 (size 1024):
comm "modprobe", pid 836, jiffies 4294971190 (age 27.068s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 .....N..........
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 53 99 9e ff ff ff ff .........S......
backtrace:
[<000000004a10c249>] kmalloc_node_trace+0x22/0x60
[<00000000648f7950>] blk_mq_alloc_and_init_hctx+0x289/0x350
[<00000000af06de0e>] blk_mq_realloc_hw_ctxs+0x2fe/0x3d0
[<00000000e00c1872>] blk_mq_init_allocated_queue+0x48c/0x1440
[<00000000d16b4e68>] __blk_mq_alloc_disk+0xc8/0x1c0
[<00000000d10c98c3>] 0xffffffffc450d69d
[<00000000b9299f48>] 0xffffffffc4538392
[<0000000061c39ed6>] do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x4f0
[<00000000b389383b>] do_init_module+0x1a4/0x680
[<0000000087cf3542>] load_module+0x6249/0x7110
[<00000000beba61b8>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x140/0x200
[<00000000fdcfff51>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
[<000000003c0f1f71>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

That is because q->ma_ops is set to NULL before blk_release_queue is
called.

blk_mq_init_queue_data
blk_mq_init_allocated_queue
blk_mq_realloc_hw_ctxs
for (i = 0; i < set->nr_hw_queues; i++) {
old_hctx = xa_load(&q->hctx_table, i);
if (!blk_mq_alloc_and_init_hctx(.., i, ..)) [1]…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-49901 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.0.8 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-49901" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-49901 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 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 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 6.0.8
```
ステージング環境で 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":"5.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.0.8"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49901 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49901 linux-hwe-edge