Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50636)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50636). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 4.14.303, 4.19.270, 5.4.229, 5.10.163, 5.15.87, 6.0.18, 6.1.4 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

PCI: Fix pci_device_is_present() for VFs by checking PF

pci_device_is_present() previously didn't work for VFs because it reads the
Vendor and Device ID, which are 0xffff for VFs, which looks like they
aren't present. Check the PF instead.

Wei Gong reported that if virtio I/O is in progress when the driver is
unbound or "0" is written to /sys/.../sriov_numvfs, the virtio I/O
operation hangs, which may result in output like this:

task:bash state:D stack: 0 pid: 1773 ppid: 1241 flags:0x00004002
Call Trace:
schedule+0x4f/0xc0
blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait+0x69/0xa0
blk_mq_freeze_queue+0x1b/0x20
blk_cleanup_queue+0x3d/0xd0
virtblk_remove+0x3c/0xb0 [virtio_blk]
virtio_dev_remove+0x4b/0x80
...
device_unregister+0x1b/0x60
unregister_virtio_device+0x18/0x30
virtio_pci_remove+0x41/0x80
pci_device_remove+0x3e/0xb0

This happened because pci_device_is_present(VF) returned "false" in
virtio_pci_remove(), so it called virtio_break_device(). The broken vq
meant that vring_interrupt() skipped the vq.callback() that would have
completed the virtio I/O operation via virtblk_done().

[bhelgaas: commit log, simplify to always use pci_physfn(), add stable tag]

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50636 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 4.14.303, 4.19.270, 5.4.229, 5.10.163, 5.15.87, 6.0.18, 6.1.4 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-50636" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-50636 (Kernel)
Patched: 4.14.303, 4.19.270, 5.4.229, 5.10.163, 5.15.87, 6.0.18, 6.1.4 — 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 4.14.303, 4.19.270, 5.4.229, 5.10.163, 5.15.87, 6.0.18, 6.1.4.

🛡️ 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 4.14.303, 4.19.270, 5.4.229, 5.10.163, 5.15.87, 6.0.18, 6.1.4
```
ステージング環境で 4.14.303, 4.19.270, 5.4.229, 5.10.163, 5.15.87, 6.0.18, 6.1.4 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":"3.13.0"},{"fixed":"4.14.303"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.15.0"},{"fixed":"4.19.270"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.20.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.229"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.163"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.87"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.0.18"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.1.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.4"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50636 linux Fixed in: 5.10.178-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50636 linux-azure Fixed in: 4.15.0-1162.177~14.04.1