Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50674)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50674). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 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:

riscv: vdso: fix NULL deference in vdso_join_timens() when vfork

Testing tools/testing/selftests/timens/vfork_exec.c got below
kernel log:

[ 6.838454] Unable to handle kernel access to user memory without uaccess routines at virtual address 0000000000000020
[ 6.842255] Oops [#1]
[ 6.842871] Modules linked in:
[ 6.844249] CPU: 1 PID: 64 Comm: vfork_exec Not tainted 6.0.0-rc3-rt15+ #8
[ 6.845861] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
[ 6.848009] epc : vdso_join_timens+0xd2/0x110
[ 6.850097] ra : vdso_join_timens+0xd2/0x110
[ 6.851164] epc : ffffffff8000635c ra : ffffffff8000635c sp : ff6000000181fbf0
[ 6.852562] gp : ffffffff80cff648 tp : ff60000000fdb700 t0 : 3030303030303030
[ 6.853852] t1 : 0000000000000030 t2 : 3030303030303030 s0 : ff6000000181fc40
[ 6.854984] s1 : ff60000001e6c000 a0 : 0000000000000010 a1 : ffffffff8005654c
[ 6.856221] a2 : 00000000ffffefff a3 : 0000000000000000 a4 : 0000000000000000
[ 6.858114] a5 : 0000000000000000 a6 : 0000000000000008 a7 : 0000000000000038
[ 6.859484] s2 : ff60000001e6c068 s3 : ff6000000108abb0 s4 : 0000000000000000
[ 6.860751] s5 : 0000000000001000 s6 : ffffffff8089dc40 s7 : ffffffff8089dc38
[ 6.862029] s8 : ffffffff8089dc30 s9 : ff60000000fdbe38 s10: 000000000000005e
[ 6.863304] s11: ffffffff80cc3510 t3 : ffffffff80d1112f t4 : ffffffff80d1112f
[ 6.864565] t5 : ffffffff80d11130 t6 : ff6000000181fa00…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50674 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.19.17, 6.0.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-50674" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-50674 (Kernel)
Patched: 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 5.19.17, 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 5.19.17, 6.0.3
```
ステージング環境で 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":"5.19.0"},{"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-2022-50674 linux Fixed in: 6.0.3-1