Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50772)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50772). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.0.7 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

netdevsim: fix memory leak in nsim_bus_dev_new()

If device_register() failed in nsim_bus_dev_new(), the value of reference
in nsim_bus_dev->dev is 1. obj->name in nsim_bus_dev->dev will not be
released.

unreferenced object 0xffff88810352c480 (size 16):
comm "echo", pid 5691, jiffies 4294945921 (age 133.270s)
hex dump (first 16 bytes):
6e 65 74 64 65 76 73 69 6d 31 00 00 00 00 00 00 netdevsim1......
backtrace:
[<000000005e2e5e26>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x3a/0xb0
[<0000000094ca4fc8>] kvasprintf+0xc3/0x160
[<00000000aad09bcc>] kvasprintf_const+0x55/0x180
[<000000009bac868d>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x150
[<000000007c1a5d70>] dev_set_name+0xbb/0xf0
[<00000000ad0d126b>] device_add+0x1f8/0x1cb0
[<00000000c222ae24>] new_device_store+0x3b6/0x5e0
[<0000000043593421>] bus_attr_store+0x72/0xa0
[<00000000cbb1833a>] sysfs_kf_write+0x106/0x160
[<00000000d0dedb8a>] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a8/0x5a0
[<00000000770b66e2>] vfs_write+0x8f0/0xc80
[<0000000078bb39be>] ksys_write+0x106/0x210
[<00000000005e55a4>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
[<00000000eaa40bbc>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50772 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.0.7 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-50772" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-50772 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.0.7 — 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 6.0.7.

🛡️ 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 6.0.7
```
ステージング環境で 6.0.7 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":"5.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.0.7"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50772 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50772 linux-hwe-edge