Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50193)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50193). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 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:

erofs: wake up all waiters after z_erofs_lzma_head ready

When the user mounts the erofs second times, the decompression thread
may hung. The problem happens due to a sequence of steps like the
following:

Task A called z_erofs_load_lzma_config which obtain all of the node
from the z_erofs_lzma_head.
At this time, task B called the z_erofs_lzma_decompress and wanted to
get a node. But the z_erofs_lzma_head was empty, the Task B had to
sleep.
Task A release nodes and push nodes into the z_erofs_lzma_head. But
task B was still sleeping.

One example report when the hung happens:
task:kworker/u3:1 state:D stack:14384 pid: 86 ppid: 2 flags:0x00004000
Workqueue: erofs_unzipd z_erofs_decompressqueue_work
Call Trace:

__schedule+0x281/0x760
schedule+0x49/0xb0
z_erofs_lzma_decompress+0x4bc/0x580
? cpu_core_flags+0x10/0x10
z_erofs_decompress_pcluster+0x49b/0xba0
? __update_load_avg_se+0x2b0/0x330
? __update_load_avg_se+0x2b0/0x330
? update_load_avg+0x5f/0x690
? update_load_avg+0x5f/0x690
? set_next_entity+0xbd/0x110
? _raw_spin_unlock+0xd/0x20
z_erofs_decompress_queue.isra.0+0x2e/0x50
z_erofs_decompressqueue_work+0x30/0x60
process_one_work+0x1d3/0x3a0
worker_thread+0x45/0x3a0
? process_one_work+0x3a0/0x3a0
kthread+0xe2/0x110
? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50193 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.18.18, 5.19.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-50193" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-50193 (Kernel)
Patched: 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 5.18.18, 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 5.18.18, 5.19.2
```
ステージング環境で 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":"5.16.0"},{"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-2022-50193 linux Fixed in: 6.0.2-1