Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50094)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50094). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 4.9.326, 4.14.291, 4.19.256, 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:

spmi: trace: fix stack-out-of-bound access in SPMI tracing functions

trace_spmi_write_begin() and trace_spmi_read_end() both call
memcpy() with a length of "len + 1". This leads to one extra
byte being read beyond the end of the specified buffer. Fix
this out-of-bound memory access by using a length of "len"
instead.

Here is a KASAN log showing the issue:

BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in trace_event_raw_event_spmi_read_end+0x1d0/0x234
Read of size 2 at addr ffffffc0265b7540 by task thermal@2.0-ser/1314
...
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0x0/0x3e8
show_stack+0x2c/0x3c
dump_stack_lvl+0xdc/0x11c
print_address_description+0x74/0x384
kasan_report+0x188/0x268
kasan_check_range+0x270/0x2b0
memcpy+0x90/0xe8
trace_event_raw_event_spmi_read_end+0x1d0/0x234
spmi_read_cmd+0x294/0x3ac
spmi_ext_register_readl+0x84/0x9c
regmap_spmi_ext_read+0x144/0x1b0 [regmap_spmi]
_regmap_raw_read+0x40c/0x754
regmap_raw_read+0x3a0/0x514
regmap_bulk_read+0x418/0x494
adc5_gen3_poll_wait_hs+0xe8/0x1e0 [qcom_spmi_adc5_gen3]
...
__arm64_sys_read+0x4c/0x60
invoke_syscall+0x80/0x218
el0_svc_common+0xec/0x1c8
...

addr ffffffc0265b7540 is located in stack of task thermal@2.0-ser/1314 at offset 32 in frame:
adc5_gen3_poll_wait_hs+0x0/0x1e0 [qcom_spmi_adc5_gen3]

this frame has 1 object:
[32, 33) 'status'

Memory state around the buggy address:
ffffffc0265b7400: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1
ffffffc0265…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50094 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 4.9.326, 4.14.291, 4.19.256, 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-2022-50094" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-50094 (Kernel)
Patched: 4.9.326, 4.14.291, 4.19.256, 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 4.9.326, 4.14.291, 4.19.256, 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 4.9.326, 4.14.291, 4.19.256, 5.4.211, 5.10.137, 5.15.61, 5.18.18, 5.19.2
```
ステージング環境で 4.9.326, 4.14.291, 4.19.256, 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":"4.3.0"},{"fixed":"4.9.326"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.10.0"},{"fixed":"4.14.291"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.15.0"},{"fixed":"4.19.256"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.20.0"},{"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-2022-50094 linux Fixed in: 5.10.140-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50094 linux-azure Fixed in: 4.15.0-1157.172~14.04.2