Vulnerability in Linux kernel (CVE-2022-50262)
Summary
Vulnerability in Linux kernel (CVE-2022-50262). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs/ntfs3: Validate BOOT record_size
When the NTFS BOOT record_size field < 0, it represents a
shift value. However, there is no sanity check on the shift result
and the sbi->record_bits calculation through blksize_bits() assumes
the size always > 256, which could lead to NPD while mounting a
malformed NTFS image.
[ 318.675159] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000158
[ 318.675682] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 318.675869] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 318.676246] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 318.676502] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[ 318.676934] CPU: 0 PID: 259 Comm: mount Not tainted 5.19.0 #5
[ 318.677289] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[ 318.678136] RIP: 0010:ni_find_attr+0x2d/0x1c0
[ 318.678656] Code: 89 ca 4d 89 c7 41 56 41 55 41 54 41 89 cc 55 48 89 fd 53 48 89 d3 48 83 ec 20 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 44 24 180
[ 318.679848] RSP: 0018:ffffa6c8c0297bd8 EFLAGS: 00000246
[ 318.680104] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000080
[ 318.680790] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
[ 318.681679] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 318.682577] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000005 R12: 0000000000000080
[ 318.683015] R13: ffff8d5582e68400 R14: 0000000000000100 R15: 000000000…
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50262 has been found in Linux kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Linux kernel CVE-2022-50262" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2022-50262 (Linux kernel) — CWE-476 / CVSS v3 5.5
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
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.
A vulnerability (CWE-476) exists in Linux kernel.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Linux kernel.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.5/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Audit SBOM/dependencies to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
Audit SBOM/dependencies for affected components.資産台帳・SBOM・依存マニフェストで Linux kernel を使っているサービスとバージョンを洗い出す。
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2Post-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
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50262 linux Fixed in: 6.1.4-1
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50262 linux
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org