Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50021)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50021). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.175, 5.15.103, 5.19.4 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

ext4: block range must be validated before use in ext4_mb_clear_bb()

Block range to free is validated in ext4_free_blocks() using
ext4_inode_block_valid() and then it's passed to ext4_mb_clear_bb().
However in some situations on bigalloc file system the range might be
adjusted after the validation in ext4_free_blocks() which can lead to
troubles on corrupted file systems such as one found by syzkaller that
resulted in the following BUG

kernel BUG at fs/ext4/ext4.h:3319!
PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 28 PID: 4243 Comm: repro Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.19.0-rc6+ #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.15.0-1.fc35 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:ext4_free_blocks+0x95e/0xa90
Call Trace:

? lock_timer_base+0x61/0x80
? __es_remove_extent+0x5a/0x760
? __mod_timer+0x256/0x380
? ext4_ind_truncate_ensure_credits+0x90/0x220
ext4_clear_blocks+0x107/0x1b0
ext4_free_data+0x15b/0x170
ext4_ind_truncate+0x214/0x2c0
? _raw_spin_unlock+0x15/0x30
? ext4_discard_preallocations+0x15a/0x410
? ext4_journal_check_start+0xe/0x90
? __ext4_journal_start_sb+0x2f/0x110
ext4_truncate+0x1b5/0x460
? __ext4_journal_start_sb+0x2f/0x110
ext4_evict_inode+0x2b4/0x6f0
evict+0xd0/0x1d0
ext4_enable_quotas+0x11f/0x1f0
ext4_orphan_cleanup+0x3de/0x430
? proc_create_seq_private+0x43/0x50
ext4_fill_super+0x295f/0x3ae0
? snprintf+0x39/0x40
? sget_fc+0x19c/0x330
? ext4_reconfigure+0x850/0x850
get_tree_bdev+0x16d/0x260
vfs_g…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50021 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.175, 5.15.103, 5.19.4 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-50021" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-50021 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.10.175, 5.15.103, 5.19.4 — 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 5.10.175, 5.15.103, 5.19.4.

🛡️ 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 5.10.175, 5.15.103, 5.19.4
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.175, 5.15.103, 5.19.4 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":"3.2.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.175"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.103"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"5.19.4"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50021 linux Fixed in: 5.10.178-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50021 linux