Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50089)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50089). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.61, 5.18.18, 5.19.2 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

btrfs: ensure pages are unlocked on cow_file_range() failure

There is a hung_task report on zoned btrfs like below.

https://github.com/naota/linux/issues/59

[726.328648] INFO: task rocksdb:high0:11085 blocked for more than 241 seconds.
[726.329839] Not tainted 5.16.0-rc1+ #1
[726.330484] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[726.331603] task:rocksdb:high0 state:D stack: 0 pid:11085 ppid: 11082 flags:0x00000000
[726.331608] Call Trace:
[726.331611]
[726.331614] __schedule+0x2e5/0x9d0
[726.331622] schedule+0x58/0xd0
[726.331626] io_schedule+0x3f/0x70
[726.331629] __folio_lock+0x125/0x200
[726.331634] ? find_get_entries+0x1bc/0x240
[726.331638] ? filemap_invalidate_unlock_two+0x40/0x40
[726.331642] truncate_inode_pages_range+0x5b2/0x770
[726.331649] truncate_inode_pages_final+0x44/0x50
[726.331653] btrfs_evict_inode+0x67/0x480
[726.331658] evict+0xd0/0x180
[726.331661] iput+0x13f/0x200
[726.331664] do_unlinkat+0x1c0/0x2b0
[726.331668] __x64_sys_unlink+0x23/0x30
[726.331670] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0
[726.331674] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
[726.331677] RIP: 0033:0x7fb9490a171b
[726.331681] RSP: 002b:00007fb943ffac68 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000057
[726.331684] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007fb9490a171b
[726.331686] RDX: 00007fb943ffb040 RSI: 000055a6…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50089 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.61, 5.18.18, 5.19.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-50089" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-50089 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.15.61, 5.18.18, 5.19.2 — 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 5.15.61, 5.18.18, 5.19.2.

🛡️ 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 5.15.61, 5.18.18, 5.19.2
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.61, 5.18.18, 5.19.2 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":"5.12.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.61"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"5.18.18"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.19.0"},{"fixed":"5.19.2"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50089 linux Fixed in: 6.0.2-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50089 linux-hwe-edge