Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50044)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50044). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.63, 5.19.4 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

net: qrtr: start MHI channel after endpoit creation

MHI channel may generates event/interrupt right after enabling.
It may leads to 2 race conditions issues.

Such event may be dropped by qcom_mhi_qrtr_dl_callback() at check:

if (!qdev || mhi_res->transaction_status)
	return;

Because dev_set_drvdata(&mhi_dev->dev, qdev) may be not performed at
this moment. In this situation qrtr-ns will be unable to enumerate
services in device.

Such event may come at the moment after dev_set_drvdata() and
before qrtr_endpoint_register(). In this case kernel will panic with
accessing wrong pointer at qcom_mhi_qrtr_dl_callback():

rc = qrtr_endpoint_post(&qdev->ep, mhi_res->buf_addr,
			mhi_res->bytes_xferd);

Because endpoint is not created yet.

So move mhi_prepare_for_transfer_autoqueue after endpoint creation
to fix it.

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50044 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.63, 5.19.4 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-50044" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-50044 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.15.63, 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 5.15.63, 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 5.15.63, 5.19.4
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.63, 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":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.63"}]},{"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-2022-50044 linux Fixed in: 6.0.2-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50044 linux