Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50678)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50678). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 4.14.296, 4.19.262, 5.4.220, 5.10.150, 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:

wifi: brcmfmac: fix invalid address access when enabling SCAN log level

The variable i is changed when setting random MAC address and causes
invalid address access when printing the value of pi->reqs[i]->reqid.

We replace reqs index with ri to fix the issue.

[ 136.726473] Unable to handle kernel access to user memory outside uaccess routines at virtual address 0000000000000000
[ 136.737365] Mem abort info:
[ 136.740172] ESR = 0x96000004
[ 136.743359] Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[ 136.749294] SET = 0, FnV = 0
[ 136.752481] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[ 136.755635] Data abort info:
[ 136.758514] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004
[ 136.762487] CM = 0, WnR = 0
[ 136.765522] user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp = 000000005c4e2577
[ 136.772265] [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000
[ 136.777160] Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[ 136.782732] Modules linked in: brcmfmac(O) brcmutil(O) cfg80211(O) compat(O)
[ 136.789788] Process wificond (pid: 3175, stack limit = 0x00000000053048fb)
[ 136.796664] CPU: 3 PID: 3175 Comm: wificond Tainted: G O 4.19.42-00001-g531a5f5 #1
[ 136.805532] Hardware name: Freescale i.MX8MQ EVK (DT)
[ 136.810584] pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO)
[ 136.815429] pc : brcmf_pno_config_sched_scans+0x6cc/0xa80 [brcmfmac]
[ 136.821811] lr : brcmf_pno_config_sched_scans+0x67c/0xa80 [brcmfmac]
[ 136.828162] sp : ffff00000e9…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50678 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 4.14.296, 4.19.262, 5.4.220, 5.10.150, 5.15.75, 5.19.17, 6.0.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-50678" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-50678 (Kernel)
Patched: 4.14.296, 4.19.262, 5.4.220, 5.10.150, 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 4.14.296, 4.19.262, 5.4.220, 5.10.150, 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 4.14.296, 4.19.262, 5.4.220, 5.10.150, 5.15.75, 5.19.17, 6.0.3
```
ステージング環境で 4.14.296, 4.19.262, 5.4.220, 5.10.150, 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":"4.13.0"},{"fixed":"4.14.296"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.15.0"},{"fixed":"4.19.262"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.20.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.220"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.150"}]},{"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-2022-50678 linux Fixed in: 5.10.158-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50678 linux-azure Fixed in: 4.15.0-1162.177~14.04.1