Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50390)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50390). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.199, 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:

drm/ttm: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for TTM_TT_FLAG_PRIV_POPULATED

Shifting signed 32-bit value by 31 bits is undefined, so changing
significant bit to unsigned. The UBSAN warning calltrace like below:

UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in ./include/drm/ttm/ttm_tt.h:122:26
left shift of 1 by 31 places cannot be represented in type 'int'
Call Trace:

dump_stack_lvl+0x7d/0xa5
dump_stack+0x15/0x1b
ubsan_epilogue+0xe/0x4e
__ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x1e7/0x20c
ttm_bo_move_memcpy+0x3b4/0x460 [ttm]
bo_driver_move+0x32/0x40 [drm_vram_helper]
ttm_bo_handle_move_mem+0x118/0x200 [ttm]
ttm_bo_validate+0xfa/0x220 [ttm]
drm_gem_vram_pin_locked+0x70/0x1b0 [drm_vram_helper]
drm_gem_vram_pin+0x48/0xb0 [drm_vram_helper]
drm_gem_vram_plane_helper_prepare_fb+0x53/0xe0 [drm_vram_helper]
drm_gem_vram_simple_display_pipe_prepare_fb+0x26/0x30 [drm_vram_helper]
drm_simple_kms_plane_prepare_fb+0x4d/0xe0 [drm_kms_helper]
drm_atomic_helper_prepare_planes+0xda/0x210 [drm_kms_helper]
drm_atomic_helper_commit+0xc3/0x1e0 [drm_kms_helper]
drm_atomic_commit+0x9c/0x160 [drm]
drm_client_modeset_commit_atomic+0x33a/0x380 [drm]
drm_client_modeset_commit_locked+0x77/0x220 [drm]
drm_client_modeset_commit+0x31/0x60 [drm]
__drm_fb_helper_restore_fbdev_mode_unlocked+0xa7/0x170 [drm_kms_helper]
drm_fb_helper_set_par+0x51/0x90 [drm_kms_helper]
fbcon_init+0x316/0x790
visual_init+0x113/0x1d0
do_bind_con_driver+0x2a3/0…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50390 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.199, 6.0.16, 6.1.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-50390" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-50390 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 5.15.199, 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 5.15.199, 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 5.15.199, 6.0.16, 6.1.2
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.199, 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":"5.10.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.199"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"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-2022-50390 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50390 linux-hwe-edge