Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-52670)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-52670). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. Mitigation: upgrade to 4.19.307, 5.4.269, 5.10.210, 5.15.149, 6.1.76, 6.6.15, 6.7.3 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

rpmsg: virtio: Free driver_override when rpmsg_remove()

Free driver_override when rpmsg_remove(), otherwise
the following memory leak will occur:

unreferenced object 0xffff0000d55d7080 (size 128):
comm "kworker/u8:2", pid 56, jiffies 4294893188 (age 214.272s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
72 70 6d 73 67 5f 6e 73 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 rpmsg_ns........
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<000000009c94c9c1>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1f8/0x320
[<000000002300d89b>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x44/0x70
[<00000000228a60c3>] kstrndup+0x4c/0x90
[<0000000077158695>] driver_set_override+0xd0/0x164
[<000000003e9c4ea5>] rpmsg_register_device_override+0x98/0x170
[<000000001c0c89a8>] rpmsg_ns_register_device+0x24/0x30
[<000000008bbf8fa2>] rpmsg_probe+0x2e0/0x3ec
[<00000000e65a68df>] virtio_dev_probe+0x1c0/0x280
[<00000000443331cc>] really_probe+0xbc/0x2dc
[<00000000391064b1>] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0xe0
[<00000000a41c9a5b>] driver_probe_device+0xd8/0x160
[<000000009c3bd5df>] __device_attach_driver+0xb8/0x140
[<0000000043cd7614>] bus_for_each_drv+0x7c/0xd4
[<000000003b929a36>] __device_attach+0x9c/0x19c
[<00000000a94e0ba8>] device_initial_probe+0x14/0x20
[<000000003c999637>] bus_probe_device+0xa0/0xac

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-52670 has been found in Kernel.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 4.19.307, 5.4.269, 5.10.210, 5.15.149, 6.1.76, 6.6.15, 6.7.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-52670" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-52670 (Kernel)
Attack vector: physical / unauthenticated
Patched: 4.19.307, 5.4.269, 5.10.210, 5.15.149, 6.1.76, 6.6.15, 6.7.3 — 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: ?. Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 4.19.307, 5.4.269, 5.10.210, 5.15.149, 6.1.76, 6.6.15, 6.7.3.

🛡️ 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 4.19.307, 5.4.269, 5.10.210, 5.15.149, 6.1.76, 6.6.15, 6.7.3
```
ステージング環境で 4.19.307, 5.4.269, 5.10.210, 5.15.149, 6.1.76, 6.6.15, 6.7.3 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":"4.13.0"},{"fixed":"4.19.307"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.20.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.269"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.210"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.149"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.76"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.15"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.7.3"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52670 linux Fixed in: 5.10.216-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52670 linux-azure