Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50228)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50228). 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:

KVM: SVM: Don't BUG if userspace injects an interrupt with GIF=0

Don't BUG/WARN on interrupt injection due to GIF being cleared,
since it's trivial for userspace to force the situation via
KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS (even if having at least a WARN there would be correct
for KVM internally generated injections).

kernel BUG at arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c:3386!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU: 15 PID: 926 Comm: smm_test Not tainted 5.17.0-rc3+ #264
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
RIP: 0010:svm_inject_irq+0xab/0xb0 [kvm_amd]
Code: <0f> 0b 0f 1f 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 80 3d ac b3 01 00 00 55 48 89 f5 53
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000b37d88 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88810a234ac0 RCX: 0000000000000006
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffc90000b37df7 RDI: ffff88810a234ac0
RBP: ffffc90000b37df7 R08: ffff88810a1fa410 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff888109571000 R14: ffff88810a234ac0 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 0000000001821380(0000) GS:ffff88846fdc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f74fc550008 CR3: 000000010a6fe000 CR4: 0000000000350ea0
Call Trace:

inject_pending_event+0x2f7/0x4c0 [kvm]
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x791/0x17a0 [kvm]
kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x26d/0x650 [kvm]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x82/0xb0
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50228 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-2022-50228" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-50228 (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":"2.6.32"},{"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-2022-50228 linux Fixed in: 5.10.140-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50228 linux-azure Fixed in: 4.15.0-1157.172~14.04.2