Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50620)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50620). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.86, 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:

f2fs: fix to invalidate dcc->f2fs_issue_discard in error path

Syzbot reports a NULL pointer dereference issue as below:

__refcount_add include/linux/refcount.h:193 [inline]
__refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:250 [inline]
refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:267 [inline]
get_task_struct include/linux/sched/task.h:110 [inline]
kthread_stop+0x34/0x1c0 kernel/kthread.c:703
f2fs_stop_discard_thread+0x3c/0x5c fs/f2fs/segment.c:1638
kill_f2fs_super+0x5c/0x194 fs/f2fs/super.c:4522
deactivate_locked_super+0x70/0xe8 fs/super.c:332
deactivate_super+0xd0/0xd4 fs/super.c:363
cleanup_mnt+0x1f8/0x234 fs/namespace.c:1186
__cleanup_mnt+0x20/0x30 fs/namespace.c:1193
task_work_run+0xc4/0x14c kernel/task_work.c:177
exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:38 [inline]
do_exit+0x26c/0xbe0 kernel/exit.c:795
do_group_exit+0x60/0xe8 kernel/exit.c:925
__do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:936 [inline]
__se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:934 [inline]
__wake_up_parent+0x0/0x40 kernel/exit.c:934
__invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:38 [inline]
invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:52 [inline]
el0_svc_common+0x138/0x220 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:142
do_el0_svc+0x48/0x164 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:206
el0_svc+0x58/0x150 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:636
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xf0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:654
el0t_64_sync+0x18c/0x190 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:581

The root cause of…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50620 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.86, 6.0.16, 6.1.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-50620" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-50620 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.15.86, 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 5.15.86, 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 5.15.86, 6.0.16, 6.1.2
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.86, 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":"5.15.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.86"}]},{"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-2022-50620 linux Fixed in: 6.1.4-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50620 linux-hwe-edge