Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50851)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50851). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.0.19, 6.1.5 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

vhost_vdpa: fix the crash in unmap a large memory

While testing in vIOMMU, sometimes Guest will unmap very large memory,
which will cause the crash. To fix this, add a new function
vhost_vdpa_general_unmap(). This function will only unmap the memory
that saved in iotlb.

Call Trace:
[ 647.820144] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 647.820848] kernel BUG at drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c:1174!
[ 647.821486] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
[ 647.822082] CPU: 10 PID: 1181 Comm: qemu-system-x86 Not tainted 6.0.0-rc1home_lulu_2452_lulu7_vhost+ #62
[ 647.823139] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.15.0-29-g6a62e0cb0dfe-prebuilt.qem4
[ 647.824365] RIP: 0010:domain_unmap+0x48/0x110
[ 647.825424] Code: 48 89 fb 8d 4c f6 1e 39 c1 0f 4f c8 83 e9 0c 83 f9 3f 7f 18 48 89 e8 48 d3 e8 48 85 c0 75 59
[ 647.828064] RSP: 0018:ffffae5340c0bbf0 EFLAGS: 00010202
[ 647.828973] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff921793d10540 RCX: 000000000000001b
[ 647.830083] RDX: 00000000080000ff RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff921793d10540
[ 647.831214] RBP: 0000000007fc0100 R08: ffffae5340c0bcd0 R09: 0000000000000003
[ 647.832388] R10: 0000007fc0100000 R11: 0000000000100000 R12: 00000000080000ff
[ 647.833668] R13: ffffae5340c0bcd0 R14: ffff921793d10590 R15: 0000008000100000
[ 647.834782] FS: 00007f772ec90640(0000) GS:ffff921ce7a80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 647.836004] CS: 0010 DS: 0000…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50851 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.0.19, 6.1.5 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-50851" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-50851 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.0.19, 6.1.5 — 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 6.0.19, 6.1.5.

🛡️ 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 6.0.19, 6.1.5
```
ステージング環境で 6.0.19, 6.1.5 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":"5.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.0.19"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.1.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.5"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50851 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50851 linux-hwe-edge