Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-52742)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-52742). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 4.14.306, 4.19.273, 5.4.232, 5.10.168, 5.15.94, 6.1.12 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

net: USB: Fix wrong-direction WARNING in plusb.c

The syzbot fuzzer detected a bug in the plusb network driver: A
zero-length control-OUT transfer was treated as a read instead of a
write. In modern kernels this error provokes a WARNING:

usb 1-1: BOGUS control dir, pipe 80000280 doesn't match bRequestType c0
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 4645 at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:411
usb_submit_urb+0x14a7/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:411
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 4645 Comm: dhcpcd Not tainted
6.2.0-rc6-syzkaller-00050-g9f266ccaa2f5 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google
01/12/2023
RIP: 0010:usb_submit_urb+0x14a7/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:411
...
Call Trace:

usb_start_wait_urb+0x101/0x4b0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:58
usb_internal_control_msg drivers/usb/core/message.c:102 [inline]
usb_control_msg+0x320/0x4a0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:153
__usbnet_read_cmd+0xb9/0x390 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:2010
usbnet_read_cmd+0x96/0xf0 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:2068
pl_vendor_req drivers/net/usb/plusb.c:60 [inline]
pl_set_QuickLink_features drivers/net/usb/plusb.c:75 [inline]
pl_reset+0x2f/0xf0 drivers/net/usb/plusb.c:85
usbnet_open+0xcc/0x5d0 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:889
__dev_open+0x297/0x4d0 net/core/dev.c:1417
__dev_change_flags+0x587/0x750 net/core/dev.c:8530
dev_change_flags+0x97/0x170 net/core/dev.c:8602
devinet_ioctl+0x15a2/0x1d70 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1147
inet_ioctl+…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-52742 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 4.14.306, 4.19.273, 5.4.232, 5.10.168, 5.15.94, 6.1.12 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-52742" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-52742 (Kernel)
Patched: 4.14.306, 4.19.273, 5.4.232, 5.10.168, 5.15.94, 6.1.12 — 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 4.14.306, 4.19.273, 5.4.232, 5.10.168, 5.15.94, 6.1.12.

🛡️ 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 4.14.306, 4.19.273, 5.4.232, 5.10.168, 5.15.94, 6.1.12
```
ステージング環境で 4.14.306, 4.19.273, 5.4.232, 5.10.168, 5.15.94, 6.1.12 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":"2.6.14"},{"fixed":"4.14.306"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.15.0"},{"fixed":"4.19.273"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.20.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.232"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.168"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.94"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.12"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52742 linux Fixed in: 5.10.178-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52742 linux-azure Fixed in: 4.15.0-1165.180~14.04.1