Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50739)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50739). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.87, 6.0.17, 6.1.3 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

fs/ntfs3: Add null pointer check for inode operations

This adds a sanity check for the i_op pointer of the inode which is
returned after reading Root directory MFT record. We should check the
i_op is valid before trying to create the root dentry, otherwise we may
encounter a NPD while mounting a image with a funny Root directory MFT
record.

[ 114.484325] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
[ 114.484811] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 114.485084] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 114.485606] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 114.485975] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
[ 114.486570] CPU: 0 PID: 237 Comm: mount Tainted: G B 6.0.0-rc4 #28
[ 114.486977] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[ 114.488169] RIP: 0010:d_flags_for_inode+0xe0/0x110
[ 114.488816] Code: 24 f7 ff 49 83 3e 00 74 41 41 83 cd 02 66 44 89 6b 02 eb 92 48 8d 7b 20 e8 6d 24 f7 ff 4c 8b 73 20 49 8d 7e 08 e8 60 241
[ 114.490326] RSP: 0018:ffff8880065e7aa8 EFLAGS: 00000296
[ 114.490695] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff888008ccd750 RCX: ffffffff84af2aea
[ 114.490986] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffffff87abd020
[ 114.491364] RBP: ffff8880065e7ac8 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: fffffbfff0f57a05
[ 114.491675] R10: ffffffff87abd027 R11: fffffbfff0f57a04 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 114.491954…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50739 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.87, 6.0.17, 6.1.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-50739" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-50739 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.15.87, 6.0.17, 6.1.3 — 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 5.15.87, 6.0.17, 6.1.3.

🛡️ 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 5.15.87, 6.0.17, 6.1.3
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.87, 6.0.17, 6.1.3 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":"5.15.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.87"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.0.17"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.1.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.3"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50739 linux Fixed in: 6.1.4-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50739 linux