Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50371)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50371). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.0.16, 6.1.2 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

led: qcom-lpg: Fix sleeping in atomic

lpg_brighness_set() function can sleep, while led's brightness_set()
callback must be non-blocking. Change LPG driver to use
brightness_set_blocking() instead.

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:580
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 0, name: swapper/0
preempt_count: 101, expected: 0
INFO: lockdep is turned off.
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W 6.1.0-rc1-00014-gbe99b089c6fc-dirty #85
Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. DB820c (DT)
Call trace:
dump_backtrace.part.0+0xe4/0xf0
show_stack+0x18/0x40
dump_stack_lvl+0x88/0xb4
dump_stack+0x18/0x34
__might_resched+0x170/0x254
__might_sleep+0x48/0x9c
__mutex_lock+0x4c/0x400
mutex_lock_nested+0x2c/0x40
lpg_brightness_single_set+0x40/0x90
led_set_brightness_nosleep+0x34/0x60
led_heartbeat_function+0x80/0x170
call_timer_fn+0xb8/0x340
__run_timers.part.0+0x20c/0x254
run_timer_softirq+0x3c/0x7c
_stext+0x14c/0x578
____do_softirq+0x10/0x20
call_on_irq_stack+0x2c/0x5c
do_softirq_own_stack+0x1c/0x30
__irq_exit_rcu+0x164/0x170
irq_exit_rcu+0x10/0x40
el1_interrupt+0x38/0x50
el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x2c
el1h_64_irq+0x64/0x68
cpuidle_enter_state+0xc8/0x380
cpuidle_enter+0x38/0x50
do_idle+0x244/0x2d0
cpu_startup_entry+0x24/0x30
rest_init+0x128/0x1a0
arch_post_acpi_subsys_init+0x0/0x18
start_kernel+0x6f4/0x734
__primar…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50371 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.0.16, 6.1.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-50371" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-50371 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 6.0.16, 6.1.2 — 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 6.0.16, 6.1.2.

🛡️ 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 6.0.16, 6.1.2
```
ステージング環境で 6.0.16, 6.1.2 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":"5.19.0"},{"fixed":"6.0.16"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.1.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.2"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50371 linux Fixed in: 6.1.4-1