Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-52559)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-52559). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.136, 6.1.57, 6.5.7 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

iommu/vt-d: Avoid memory allocation in iommu_suspend()

The iommu_suspend() syscore suspend callback is invoked with IRQ disabled.
Allocating memory with the GFP_KERNEL flag may re-enable IRQs during
the suspend callback, which can cause intermittent suspend/hibernation
problems with the following kernel traces:

Calling iommu_suspend+0x0/0x1d0
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 15 at kernel/time/timekeeping.c:868 ktime_get+0x9b/0xb0
...
CPU: 0 PID: 15 Comm: rcu_preempt Tainted: G U E 6.3-intel #r1
RIP: 0010:ktime_get+0x9b/0xb0
...
Call Trace:

tick_sched_timer+0x22/0x90
? __pfx_tick_sched_timer+0x10/0x10
__hrtimer_run_queues+0x111/0x2b0
hrtimer_interrupt+0xfa/0x230
__sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x63/0x140
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x7b/0xa0

asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1f/0x30
...
------------[ cut here ]------------
Interrupts enabled after iommu_suspend+0x0/0x1d0
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 27420 at drivers/base/syscore.c:68 syscore_suspend+0x147/0x270
CPU: 0 PID: 27420 Comm: rtcwake Tainted: G U W E 6.3-intel #r1
RIP: 0010:syscore_suspend+0x147/0x270
...
Call Trace:

hibernation_snapshot+0x25b/0x670
hibernate+0xcd/0x390
state_store+0xcf/0xe0
kobj_attr_store+0x13/0x30
sysfs_kf_write+0x3f/0x50
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x128/0x200
vfs_write+0x1fd/0x3c0
ksys_write+0x6f/0xf0
__x64_sys_write+0x1d/0x30
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-52559 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.136, 6.1.57, 6.5.7 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-52559" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-52559 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.15.136, 6.1.57, 6.5.7 — 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 5.15.136, 6.1.57, 6.5.7.

🛡️ 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 5.15.136, 6.1.57, 6.5.7
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.136, 6.1.57, 6.5.7 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":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.136"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.57"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.5.7"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52559 linux Fixed in: 6.1.64-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52559 linux-hwe-edge