Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49902)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49902). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 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:

block: Fix possible memory leak for rq_wb on add_disk failure

kmemleak reported memory leaks in device_add_disk():

kmemleak: 3 new suspected memory leaks

unreferenced object 0xffff88800f420800 (size 512):
comm "modprobe", pid 4275, jiffies 4295639067 (age 223.512s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
04 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 e1 f5 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<00000000d3662699>] kmalloc_trace+0x26/0x60
[<00000000edc7aadc>] wbt_init+0x50/0x6f0
[<0000000069601d16>] wbt_enable_default+0x157/0x1c0
[<0000000028fc393f>] blk_register_queue+0x2a4/0x420
[<000000007345a042>] device_add_disk+0x6fd/0xe40
[<0000000060e6aab0>] nbd_dev_add+0x828/0xbf0 [nbd]
...

It is because the memory allocated in wbt_enable_default() is not
released in device_add_disk() error path.
Normally, these memory are freed in:

del_gendisk()
rq_qos_exit()
rqos->ops->exit(rqos);
wbt_exit()

So rq_qos_exit() is called to free the rq_wb memory for wbt_init().
However in the error path of device_add_disk(), only
blk_unregister_queue() is called and make rq_wb memory leaked.

Add rq_qos_exit() to the error path to fix it.

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-49902 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.78, 6.0.8 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-49902" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-49902 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 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 5.15.78, 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 5.15.78, 6.0.8
```
ステージング環境で 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":"5.15.0"},{"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-2022-49902 linux Fixed in: 6.0.8-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902 linux-hwe-edge