Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50571)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50571). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.19.17 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

btrfs: call __btrfs_remove_free_space_cache_locked on cache load failure

Now that lockdep is staying enabled through our entire CI runs I started
seeing the following stack in generic/475

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WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2171864 at fs/btrfs/discard.c:604 btrfs_discard_update_discardable+0x98/0xb0
CPU: 1 PID: 2171864 Comm: kworker/u4:0 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc8+ #789
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.13.0-2.fc32 04/01/2014
Workqueue: btrfs-cache btrfs_work_helper
RIP: 0010:btrfs_discard_update_discardable+0x98/0xb0
RSP: 0018:ffffb857c2f7bad0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8c85c605c200 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff86807c5b RDI: ffffffff868a831e
RBP: ffff8c85c4c54000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff8c85c66932f0 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff8c85c3899010
R13: ffff8c85d5be4f40 R14: ffff8c85c4c54000 R15: ffff8c86114bfa80
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8c863bd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f2e7f168160 CR3: 000000010289a004 CR4: 0000000000370ee0
Call Trace:

__btrfs_remove_free_space_cache+0x27/0x30
load_free_space_cache+0xad2/0xaf0
caching_thread+0x40b/0x650
? lock_release+0x137/0x2d0
btrfs_work_helper+0xf2/0x3e0
? lock_is_held_type+0xe2/0x140
process_one_work+0x271/0x590
? process_one_work+0x590/0x590
worker_thread+0x52/0x3b…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50571 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.19.17 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-50571" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-50571 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.19.17 — 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 5.19.17.

🛡️ 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 5.19.17
```
ステージング環境で 5.19.17 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":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.19.17"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50571 linux Fixed in: 6.1.4-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50571 linux