Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50699)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50699). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.152, 5.15.76, 6.0.6 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

selinux: enable use of both GFP_KERNEL and GFP_ATOMIC in convert_context()

The following warning was triggered on a hardware environment:

SELinux: Converting 162 SID table entries...
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at
__might_sleep+0x60/0x74 0x0
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 128, non_block: 0, pid: 5943, name: tar
CPU: 7 PID: 5943 Comm: tar Tainted: P O 5.10.0 #1
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1c8
show_stack+0x18/0x28
dump_stack+0xe8/0x15c
___might_sleep+0x168/0x17c
__might_sleep+0x60/0x74
__kmalloc_track_caller+0xa0/0x7dc
kstrdup+0x54/0xac
convert_context+0x48/0x2e4
sidtab_context_to_sid+0x1c4/0x36c
security_context_to_sid_core+0x168/0x238
security_context_to_sid_default+0x14/0x24
inode_doinit_use_xattr+0x164/0x1e4
inode_doinit_with_dentry+0x1c0/0x488
selinux_d_instantiate+0x20/0x34
security_d_instantiate+0x70/0xbc
d_splice_alias+0x4c/0x3c0
ext4_lookup+0x1d8/0x200 [ext4]
__lookup_slow+0x12c/0x1e4
walk_component+0x100/0x200
path_lookupat+0x88/0x118
filename_lookup+0x98/0x130
user_path_at_empty+0x48/0x60
vfs_statx+0x84/0x140
vfs_fstatat+0x20/0x30
__se_sys_newfstatat+0x30/0x74
__arm64_sys_newfstatat+0x1c/0x2c
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x100/0x184
do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x2c
el0_svc+0x20/0x34
el0_sync_handler+0x80/0x17c
el0_sync+0x13c/0x140
SELinux: Context system_u:object_r:pssp_r…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50699 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.152, 5.15.76, 6.0.6 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-50699" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-50699 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.10.152, 5.15.76, 6.0.6 — 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 5.10.152, 5.15.76, 6.0.6.

🛡️ 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 5.10.152, 5.15.76, 6.0.6
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.152, 5.15.76, 6.0.6 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":"5.0.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.152"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.76"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.0.6"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50699 linux Fixed in: 5.10.158-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50699 linux-hwe-edge