Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50352)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50352). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 4.9.332, 4.14.298, 4.19.264, 5.4.221, 5.10.152, 5.15.76, 6.0.6 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: hns: fix possible memory leak in hnae_ae_register()

Inject fault while probing module, if device_register() fails,
but the refcount of kobject is not decreased to 0, the name
allocated in dev_set_name() is leaked. Fix this by calling
put_device(), so that name can be freed in callback function
kobject_cleanup().

unreferenced object 0xffff00c01aba2100 (size 128):
comm "systemd-udevd", pid 1259, jiffies 4294903284 (age 294.152s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
68 6e 61 65 30 00 00 00 18 21 ba 1a c0 00 ff ff hnae0....!......
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<0000000034783f26>] slab_post_alloc_hook+0xa0/0x3e0
[<00000000748188f2>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x164/0x2b0
[<00000000ab0743e8>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x6c/0x390
[<000000006c0ffb13>] kvasprintf+0x8c/0x118
[<00000000fa27bfe1>] kvasprintf_const+0x60/0xc8
[<0000000083e10ed7>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x3c/0xc0
[<000000000b87affc>] dev_set_name+0x7c/0xa0
[<000000003fd8fe26>] hnae_ae_register+0xcc/0x190 [hnae]
[<00000000fe97edc9>] hns_dsaf_ae_init+0x9c/0x108 [hns_dsaf]
[<00000000c36ff1eb>] hns_dsaf_probe+0x548/0x748 [hns_dsaf]

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50352 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 4.9.332, 4.14.298, 4.19.264, 5.4.221, 5.10.152, 5.15.76, 6.0.6 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-50352" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-50352 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 4.9.332, 4.14.298, 4.19.264, 5.4.221, 5.10.152, 5.15.76, 6.0.6 — 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 4.9.332, 4.14.298, 4.19.264, 5.4.221, 5.10.152, 5.15.76, 6.0.6.

🛡️ 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 4.9.332, 4.14.298, 4.19.264, 5.4.221, 5.10.152, 5.15.76, 6.0.6
```
ステージング環境で 4.9.332, 4.14.298, 4.19.264, 5.4.221, 5.10.152, 5.15.76, 6.0.6 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":"4.4.0"},{"fixed":"4.9.332"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.10.0"},{"fixed":"4.14.298"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.15.0"},{"fixed":"4.19.264"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.20.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.221"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.152"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.76"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.0.6"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50352 linux Fixed in: 5.10.158-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50352 linux-azure Fixed in: 4.15.0-1162.177~14.04.1