Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50370)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50370). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.75, 5.19.17, 6.0.3 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

i2c: designware: Fix handling of real but unexpected device interrupts

Commit c7b79a752871 ("mfd: intel-lpss: Add Intel Alder Lake PCH-S PCI
IDs") caused a regression on certain Gigabyte motherboards for Intel
Alder Lake-S where system crashes to NULL pointer dereference in
i2c_dw_xfer_msg() when system resumes from S3 sleep state ("deep").

I was able to debug the issue on Gigabyte Z690 AORUS ELITE and made
following notes:

Issue happens when resuming from S3 but not when resuming from
"s2idle"
PCI device 00:15.0 == i2c_designware.0 is already in D0 state when
system enters into pci_pm_resume_noirq() while all other i2c_designware
PCI devices are in D3. Devices were runtime suspended and in D3 prior
entering into suspend
Interrupt comes after pci_pm_resume_noirq() when device interrupts are
re-enabled
According to register dump the interrupt really comes from the
i2c_designware.0. Controller is enabled, I2C target address register
points to a one detectable I2C device address 0x60 and the
DW_IC_RAW_INTR_STAT register START_DET, STOP_DET, ACTIVITY and
TX_EMPTY bits are set indicating completed I2C transaction.

My guess is that the firmware uses this controller to communicate with
an on-board I2C device during resume but does not disable the controller
before giving control to an operating system.

I was told the UEFI update fixes this but never the less it revealed the
driver is…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50370 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.75, 5.19.17, 6.0.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-50370" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-50370 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 5.15.75, 5.19.17, 6.0.3 — 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 5.15.75, 5.19.17, 6.0.3.

🛡️ 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 5.15.75, 5.19.17, 6.0.3
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.75, 5.19.17, 6.0.3 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":"5.12.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.75"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"5.19.17"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.20.0"},{"fixed":"6.0.3"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50370 linux Fixed in: 6.0.3-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50370 linux-hwe-edge