Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50092)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50092). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.4.211, 5.10.137, 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:

dm thin: fix use-after-free crash in dm_sm_register_threshold_callback

Fault inject on pool metadata device reports:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in dm_pool_register_metadata_threshold+0x40/0x80
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881b9d50068 by task dmsetup/950

CPU: 7 PID: 950 Comm: dmsetup Tainted: G W 5.19.0-rc6 #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-1.fc33 04/01/2014
Call Trace:

dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x44
print_address_description.constprop.0.cold+0xeb/0x3f4
kasan_report.cold+0xe6/0x147
dm_pool_register_metadata_threshold+0x40/0x80
pool_ctr+0xa0a/0x1150
dm_table_add_target+0x2c8/0x640
table_load+0x1fd/0x430
ctl_ioctl+0x2c4/0x5a0
dm_ctl_ioctl+0xa/0x10
__x64_sys_ioctl+0xb3/0xd0
do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

This can be easily reproduced using:
echo offline > /sys/block/sda/device/state
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/thin bs=4k count=10
dmsetup load pool --table "0 20971520 thin-pool /dev/sda /dev/sdb 128 0 0"

If a metadata commit fails, the transaction will be aborted and the
metadata space maps will be destroyed. If a DM table reload then
happens for this failed thin-pool, a use-after-free will occur in
dm_sm_register_threshold_callback (called from
dm_pool_register_metadata_threshold).

Fix this by in dm_pool_register_metadata_threshold() by returning the
-EINVAL error if the t…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50092 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.4.211, 5.10.137, 5.15.61, 5.18.18, 5.19.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-50092" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-50092 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.4.211, 5.10.137, 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 5.4.211, 5.10.137, 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 5.4.211, 5.10.137, 5.15.61, 5.18.18, 5.19.2
```
ステージング環境で 5.4.211, 5.10.137, 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":"3.10.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.211"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.137"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"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-2022-50092 linux Fixed in: 5.10.140-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50092 linux