Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50078)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50078). 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:

tracing/eprobes: Do not allow eprobes to use $stack, or % for regs

While playing with event probes (eprobes), I tried to see what would
happen if I attempted to retrieve the instruction pointer (%rip) knowing
that event probes do not use pt_regs. The result was:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000024
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 1 PID: 1847 Comm: trace-cmd Not tainted 5.19.0-rc5-test+ #309
Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF/339A, BIOS K01
v03.03 07/14/2016
RIP: 0010:get_event_field.isra.0+0x0/0x50
Code: ff 48 c7 c7 c0 8f 74 a1 e8 3d 8b f5 ff e8 88 09 f6 ff 4c 89 e7 e8
50 6a 13 00 48 89 ef 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d e9 42 6a 13 00 66 90 <48> 63 47 24
8b 57 2c 48 01 c6 8b 47 28 83 f8 02 74 0e 83 f8 04 74
RSP: 0018:ffff916c394bbaf0 EFLAGS: 00010086
RAX: ffff916c854041d8 RBX: ffff916c8d9fbf50 RCX: ffff916c255d2000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff916c255d2008 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff916c3a2a0c08 R09: ffff916c394bbda8
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff916c854041d8
R13: ffff916c854041b0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff916c9ea40000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000024 CR3: 000000011b60a002 CR4: 00000000…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50078 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-2022-50078" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-50078 (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":"5.15.0"},{"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-2022-50078 linux Fixed in: 6.0.2-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50078 linux-hwe-edge