Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50471)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50471). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.152, 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:

xen/gntdev: Accommodate VMA splitting

Prior to this commit, the gntdev driver code did not handle the
following scenario correctly with paravirtualized (PV) Xen domains:

User process sets up a gntdev mapping composed of two grant mappings
(i.e., two pages shared by another Xen domain).
User process munmap()s one of the pages.
User process munmap()s the remaining page.
User process exits.

In the scenario above, the user process would cause the kernel to log
the following messages in dmesg for the first munmap(), and the second
munmap() call would result in similar log messages:

BUG: Bad page map in process doublemap.test pte:... pmd:...
page:0000000057c97bff refcount:1 mapcount:-1
mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:...
...
page dumped because: bad pte
...
file:gntdev fault:0x0 mmap:gntdev_mmap [xen_gntdev] readpage:0x0
...
Call Trace:

dump_stack_lvl+0x46/0x5e
print_bad_pte.cold+0x66/0xb6
unmap_page_range+0x7e5/0xdc0
unmap_vmas+0x78/0xf0
unmap_region+0xa8/0x110
__do_munmap+0x1ea/0x4e0
__vm_munmap+0x75/0x120
__x64_sys_munmap+0x28/0x40
do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb
...

For each munmap() call, the Xen hypervisor (if built with CONFIG_DEBUG)
would print out the following and trigger a general protection fault in
the affected Xen PV domain:

(XEN) d0v... Attempt to implicitly unmap d0's grant PTE ...…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50471 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.152, 5.15.75, 5.19.17, 6.0.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-50471" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-50471 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.10.152, 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 5.10.152, 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 5.10.152, 5.15.75, 5.19.17, 6.0.3
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.152, 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":"2.6.38"},{"fixed":"5.10.152"}]},{"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-2022-50471 linux Fixed in: 5.10.158-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50471 linux