Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50372)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50372). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.0.6 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

cifs: Fix memory leak when build ntlmssp negotiate blob failed

There is a memory leak when mount cifs:
unreferenced object 0xffff888166059600 (size 448):
comm "mount.cifs", pid 51391, jiffies 4295596373 (age 330.596s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
fe 53 4d 42 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 82 00 .SMB@...........
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<0000000060609a61>] mempool_alloc+0xe1/0x260
[<00000000adfa6c63>] cifs_small_buf_get+0x24/0x60
[<00000000ebb404c7>] __smb2_plain_req_init+0x32/0x460
[<00000000bcf875b4>] SMB2_sess_alloc_buffer+0xa4/0x3f0
[<00000000753a2987>] SMB2_sess_auth_rawntlmssp_negotiate+0xf5/0x480
[<00000000f0c1f4f9>] SMB2_sess_setup+0x253/0x410
[<00000000a8b83303>] cifs_setup_session+0x18f/0x4c0
[<00000000854bd16d>] cifs_get_smb_ses+0xae7/0x13c0
[<000000006cbc43d9>] mount_get_conns+0x7a/0x730
[<000000005922d816>] cifs_mount+0x103/0xd10
[<00000000e33def3b>] cifs_smb3_do_mount+0x1dd/0xc90
[<0000000078034979>] smb3_get_tree+0x1d5/0x300
[<000000004371f980>] vfs_get_tree+0x41/0xf0
[<00000000b670d8a7>] path_mount+0x9b3/0xdd0
[<000000005e839a7d>] __x64_sys_mount+0x190/0x1d0
[<000000009404c3b9>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80

When build ntlmssp negotiate blob failed, the session setup request
should be freed.

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50372 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.0.6 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-50372" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-50372 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 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 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 6.0.6
```
ステージング環境で 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":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.0.6"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50372 linux Fixed in: 6.0.6-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50372 linux-hwe-edge