Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50062)
Summary
Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50062). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.4.211, 5.10.138, 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: bgmac: Fix a BUG triggered by wrong bytes_compl
On one of our machines we got:
kernel BUG at lib/dynamic_queue_limits.c:27!
Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
CPU: 0 PID: 1166 Comm: irq/41-bgmac Tainted: G W O 4.14.275-rt132 #1
Hardware name: BRCM XGS iProc
task: ee3415c0 task.stack: ee32a000
PC is at dql_completed+0x168/0x178
LR is at bgmac_poll+0x18c/0x6d8
pc : [] lr : [] psr: 800a0313
sp : ee32be14 ip : 000005ea fp : 00000bd4
r10: ee558500 r9 : c0116298 r8 : 00000002
r7 : 00000000 r6 : ef128810 r5 : 01993267 r4 : 01993851
r3 : ee558000 r2 : 000070e1 r1 : 00000bd4 r0 : ee52c180
Flags: Nzcv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment none
Control: 12c5387d Table: 8e88c04a DAC: 00000051
Process irq/41-bgmac (pid: 1166, stack limit = 0xee32a210)
Stack: (0xee32be14 to 0xee32c000)
be00: ee558520 ee52c100 ef128810
be20: 00000000 00000002 c0116298 c04b5a18 00000000 c0a0c8c4 c0951780 00000040
be40: c0701780 ee558500 ee55d520 ef05b340 ef6f9780 ee558520 00000001 00000040
be60: ffffe000 c0a56878 ef6fa040 c0952040 0000012c c0528744 ef6f97b0 fffcfb6a
be80: c0a04104 2eda8000 c0a0c4ec c0a0d368 ee32bf44 c0153534 ee32be98 ee32be98
bea0: ee32bea0 ee32bea0 ee32bea8 ee32bea8 00000000 c01462e4 ffffe000 ef6f22a8
bec0: ffffe000 00000008 ee32bee4 c0147430 ffffe000 c094a2a8 00000003 ffffe000
bee0: c0a54528 00208040 0000000c c0a0c8…
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50062 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 7.5/10.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.4.211, 5.10.138, 5.15.63, 5.19.4 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-50062" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2022-50062 (Kernel) — CWE-617 / CVSS v3 7.5
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Patched: 5.4.211, 5.10.138, 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.
A vulnerability (CWE-617) exists in Kernel.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Kernel.
Severity: High (CVSS 7.5/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 5.4.211, 5.10.138, 5.15.63, 5.19.4.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
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
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1Identify 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。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade Kernel to 5.4.211, 5.10.138, 5.15.63, 5.19.4ステージング環境で 5.4.211, 5.10.138, 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。
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3Post-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
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50062 linux Fixed in: 5.10.140-1
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50062 linux-aws
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org