CVE-2022-49814 Affecting kernel-tools-debuginfo package, versions <0:4.14.301-224.520.amzn2


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-KERNELTOOLSDEBUGINFO-10499922
  • published25 Jun 2025
  • disclosed1 May 2025

Introduced: 1 May 2025

CVE-2022-49814  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 kernel-tools-debuginfo to version 0:4.14.301-224.520.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2022-1903.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools-debuginfo package and not the kernel-tools-debuginfo package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

kcm: close race conditions on sk_receive_queue

sk->sk_receive_queue is protected by skb queue lock, but for KCM sockets its RX path takes mux->rx_lock to protect more than just skb queue. However, kcm_recvmsg() still only grabs the skb queue lock, so race conditions still exist.

We can teach kcm_recvmsg() to grab mux->rx_lock too but this would introduce a potential performance regression as struct kcm_mux can be shared by multiple KCM sockets.

So we have to enforce skb queue lock in requeue_rx_msgs() and handle skb peek case carefully in kcm_wait_data(). Fortunately, skb_recv_datagram() already handles it nicely and is widely used by other sockets, we can just switch to skb_recv_datagram() after getting rid of the unnecessary sock lock in kcm_recvmsg() and kcm_splice_read(). Side note: SOCK_DONE is not used by KCM sockets, so it is safe to get rid of this check too.

I ran the original syzbot reproducer for 30 min without seeing any issue.

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