Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-52582)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-52582). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.56, 6.5.6 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

netfs: Only call folio_start_fscache() one time for each folio

If a network filesystem using netfs implements a clamp_length()
function, it can set subrequest lengths smaller than a page size.

When we loop through the folios in netfs_rreq_unlock_folios() to
set any folios to be written back, we need to make sure we only
call folio_start_fscache() once for each folio.

Otherwise, this simple testcase:

mount -o fsc,rsize=1024,wsize=1024 127.0.0.1:/export /mnt/nfs
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/nfs/file.bin bs=4096 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
4096 bytes (4.1 kB, 4.0 KiB) copied, 0.0126359 s, 324 kB/s
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
cat /mnt/nfs/file.bin > /dev/null

will trigger an oops similar to the following:

page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(folio_test_private_2(folio))
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at include/linux/netfs.h:44!
...
CPU: 5 PID: 134 Comm: kworker/u16:5 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.4.0-rc5
...
RIP: 0010:netfs_rreq_unlock_folios+0x68e/0x730 [netfs]
...
Call Trace:
netfs_rreq_assess+0x497/0x660 [netfs]
netfs_subreq_terminated+0x32b/0x610 [netfs]
nfs_netfs_read_completion+0x14e/0x1a0 [nfs]
nfs_read_completion+0x2f9/0x330 [nfs]
rpc_free_task+0x72/0xa0 [sunrpc]
rpc_async_release+0x46/0x70 [sunrpc]
process_one_work+0x3bd/0x710
worker_thread+0x89/0x610
kthread+0x181/0x1c0
ret_from_fork+0x29/0x50

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-52582 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.56, 6.5.6 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-52582" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-52582 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.1.56, 6.5.6 — 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 6.1.56, 6.5.6.

🛡️ 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 6.1.56, 6.5.6
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.56, 6.5.6 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":"5.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.56"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.5.6"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52582 linux Fixed in: 6.1.64-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52582 linux-hwe-edge