Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50854)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2022-50854). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.77, 6.0.7 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

nfc: virtual_ncidev: Fix memory leak in virtual_nci_send()

skb should be free in virtual_nci_send(), otherwise kmemleak will report
memleak.

Steps for reproduction (simulated in qemu):
cd tools/testing/selftests/nci
make
./nci_dev

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff888107588000 (size 208):
comm "nci_dev", pid 206, jiffies 4294945376 (age 368.248s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<000000008d94c8fd>] __alloc_skb+0x1da/0x290
[<00000000278bc7f8>] nci_send_cmd+0xa3/0x350
[<0000000081256a22>] nci_reset_req+0x6b/0xa0
[<000000009e721112>] __nci_request+0x90/0x250
[<000000005d556e59>] nci_dev_up+0x217/0x5b0
[<00000000e618ce62>] nfc_dev_up+0x114/0x220
[<00000000981e226b>] nfc_genl_dev_up+0x94/0xe0
[<000000009bb03517>] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.14+0x228/0x2d0
[<00000000b7f8c101>] genl_rcv_msg+0x35c/0x640
[<00000000c94075ff>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x11e/0x350
[<00000000440cfb1e>] genl_rcv+0x24/0x40
[<0000000062593b40>] netlink_unicast+0x43f/0x640
[<000000001d0b13cc>] netlink_sendmsg+0x73a/0xbf0
[<000000003272487f>] __sys_sendto+0x324/0x370
[<00000000ef9f1747>] __x64_sys_sendto+0xdd/0x1b0
[<000000001e437841>] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-50854 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.77, 6.0.7 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2022-50854" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2022-50854 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.15.77, 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 5.15.77, 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 5.15.77, 6.0.7
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.77, 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":"5.12.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.77"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.0.7"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50854 linux Fixed in: 6.0.7-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50854 linux-hwe-edge