Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50379)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50379). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 4.19.262, 5.4.220, 5.10.150, 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:

btrfs: fix race between quota enable and quota rescan ioctl

When enabling quotas, at btrfs_quota_enable(), after committing the
transaction, we change fs_info->quota_root to point to the quota root we
created and set BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_ENABLED at fs_info->flags. Then we try
to start the qgroup rescan worker, first by initializing it with a call
to qgroup_rescan_init() - however if that fails we end up freeing the
quota root but we leave fs_info->quota_root still pointing to it, this
can later result in a use-after-free somewhere else.

We have previously set the flags BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_ENABLED and
BTRFS_QGROUP_STATUS_FLAG_ON, so we can only fail with -EINPROGRESS at
btrfs_quota_enable(), which is possible if someone already called the
quota rescan ioctl, and therefore started the rescan worker.

So fix this by ignoring an -EINPROGRESS and asserting we can't get any
other error.

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50379 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 4.19.262, 5.4.220, 5.10.150, 5.15.75, 5.19.17, 6.0.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-50379" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-50379 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 4.19.262, 5.4.220, 5.10.150, 5.15.75, 5.19.17, 6.0.3 — apply immediately
Workaround: set BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_: ENABLED
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 4.19.262, 5.4.220, 5.10.150, 5.15.75, 5.19.17, 6.0.3.

🛡️ Workaround

Workaround: set BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_: ENABLED

🔍 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 temporary workaround mitigate
```
set BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_: ENABLED
```
パッチが適用されるまでの応急処置として、set BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_: ENABLED を実施。回避策の副作用 (機能低下) を確認した上で。
3
Apply patch patch
```
Upgrade Kernel to 4.19.262, 5.4.220, 5.10.150, 5.15.75, 5.19.17, 6.0.3
```
ステージング環境で 4.19.262, 5.4.220, 5.10.150, 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。
4
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":"4.17.0"},{"fixed":"4.19.262"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.20.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.220"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.150"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"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-2022-50379 linux Fixed in: 5.10.158-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50379 linux