Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-52451). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 4.19.306, 5.4.268, 5.10.209, 5.15.148, 6.1.75, 6.6.14, 6.7.2 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

powerpc/pseries/memhp: Fix access beyond end of drmem array

dlpar_memory_remove_by_index() may access beyond the bounds of the
drmem lmb array when the LMB lookup fails to match an entry with the
given DRC index. When the search fails, the cursor is left pointing to
&drmem_info->lmbs[drmem_info->n_lmbs], which is one element past the
last valid entry in the array. The debug message at the end of the
function then dereferences this pointer:

    pr_debug("Failed to hot-remove memory at %llx\n",
             lmb->base_addr);

This was found by inspection and confirmed with KASAN:

pseries-hotplug-mem: Attempting to hot-remove LMB, drc index 1234

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in dlpar_memory+0x298/0x1658
Read of size 8 at addr c000000364e97fd0 by task bash/949

dump_stack_lvl+0xa4/0xfc (unreliable)
print_report+0x214/0x63c
kasan_report+0x140/0x2e0
__asan_load8+0xa8/0xe0
dlpar_memory+0x298/0x1658
handle_dlpar_errorlog+0x130/0x1d0
dlpar_store+0x18c/0x3e0
kobj_attr_store+0x68/0xa0
sysfs_kf_write+0xc4/0x110
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x26c/0x390
vfs_write+0x2d4/0x4e0
ksys_write+0xac/0x1a0
system_call_exception+0x268/0x530
system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec

Allocated by task 1:
kasan_save_stack+0x48/0x80
kasan_set_track+0x34/0x50
kasan_save_alloc_info+0x34/0x50
__kasan_kmalloc+0xd0/0x120…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-52451 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 4.19.306, 5.4.268, 5.10.209, 5.15.148, 6.1.75, 6.6.14, 6.7.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-52451" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-52451 (Kernel)
Patched: 4.19.306, 5.4.268, 5.10.209, 5.15.148, 6.1.75, 6.6.14, 6.7.2 — 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 4.19.306, 5.4.268, 5.10.209, 5.15.148, 6.1.75, 6.6.14, 6.7.2.

🛡️ 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 4.19.306, 5.4.268, 5.10.209, 5.15.148, 6.1.75, 6.6.14, 6.7.2
```
ステージング環境で 4.19.306, 5.4.268, 5.10.209, 5.15.148, 6.1.75, 6.6.14, 6.7.2 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":"4.1.0"},{"fixed":"4.19.306"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.20.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.268"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.209"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.148"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.75"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.14"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.7.2"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52451 linux Fixed in: 5.10.209-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52451 linux-aws Fixed in: 4.4.0-1130.136