Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49959)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-49959). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.66, 5.19.8 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

openvswitch: fix memory leak at failed datapath creation

ovs_dp_cmd_new()->ovs_dp_change()->ovs_dp_set_upcall_portids()
allocates array via kmalloc.
If for some reason new_vport() fails during ovs_dp_cmd_new()
dp->upcall_portids must be freed.
Add missing kfree.

Kmemleak example:
unreferenced object 0xffff88800c382500 (size 64):
comm "dump_state", pid 323, jiffies 4294955418 (age 104.347s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
5e c2 79 e4 1f 7a 38 c7 09 21 38 0c 80 88 ff ff ^.y..z8..!8.....
03 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 14 00 00 00 28 00 00 00 ............(...
backtrace:
[<0000000071bebc9f>] ovs_dp_set_upcall_portids+0x38/0xa0
[<000000000187d8bd>] ovs_dp_change+0x63/0xe0
[<000000002397e446>] ovs_dp_cmd_new+0x1f0/0x380
[<00000000aa06f36e>] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xea/0x150
[<000000008f583bc4>] genl_rcv_msg+0xdc/0x1e0
[<00000000fa10e377>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x50/0x100
[<000000004959cece>] genl_rcv+0x24/0x40
[<000000004699ac7f>] netlink_unicast+0x23e/0x360
[<00000000c153573e>] netlink_sendmsg+0x24e/0x4b0
[<000000006f4aa380>] sock_sendmsg+0x62/0x70
[<00000000d0068654>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x230/0x270
[<0000000012dacf7d>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x88/0xd0
[<0000000011776020>] __sys_sendmsg+0x59/0xa0
[<000000002e8f2dc1>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
[<000000003243e7cb>] 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-2022-49959 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.66, 5.19.8 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-49959" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-49959 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.15.66, 5.19.8 — 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 5.15.66, 5.19.8.

🛡️ 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 5.15.66, 5.19.8
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.66, 5.19.8 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":"5.15.66"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"5.19.8"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49959 linux Fixed in: 6.0.2-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49959 linux-hwe-edge