Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50066)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50066). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 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: atlantic: fix aq_vec index out of range error

The final update statement of the for loop exceeds the array range, the
dereference of self->aq_vec[i] is not checked and then leads to the
index out of range error.
Also fixed this kind of coding style in other for loop.

[ 97.937604] UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/aq_nic.c:1404:48
[ 97.937607] index 8 is out of range for type 'aq_vec_s *[8]'
[ 97.937608] CPU: 38 PID: 3767 Comm: kworker/u256:18 Not tainted 5.19.0+ #2
[ 97.937610] Hardware name: Dell Inc. Precision 7865 Tower/, BIOS 1.0.0 06/12/2022
[ 97.937611] Workqueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn
[ 97.937616] Call Trace:
[ 97.937617]
[ 97.937619] dump_stack_lvl+0x49/0x63
[ 97.937624] dump_stack+0x10/0x16
[ 97.937626] ubsan_epilogue+0x9/0x3f
[ 97.937627] __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds.cold+0x44/0x49
[ 97.937629] ? __scm_send+0x348/0x440
[ 97.937632] ? aq_vec_stop+0x72/0x80 [atlantic]
[ 97.937639] aq_nic_stop+0x1b6/0x1c0 [atlantic]
[ 97.937644] aq_suspend_common+0x88/0x90 [atlantic]
[ 97.937648] aq_pm_suspend_poweroff+0xe/0x20 [atlantic]
[ 97.937653] pci_pm_suspend+0x7e/0x1a0
[ 97.937655] ? pci_pm_suspend_noirq+0x2b0/0x2b0
[ 97.937657] dpm_run_callback+0x54/0x190
[ 97.937660] __device_suspend+0x14c/0x4d0
[ 97.937661] async_suspend+0x23/0x70
[ 97.937663] async_run_entry_fn+0x33/0x120
[ 97.937664]…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50066 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.138, 5.15.63, 5.19.4 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-50066" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-50066 (Kernel)
Patched: 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.

❓ 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 5.10.138, 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 5.10.138, 5.15.63, 5.19.4
```
ステージング環境で 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。
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":"4.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.138"}]},{"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-2022-50066 linux Fixed in: 5.10.140-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50066 linux-azure