Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-52780)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-52780). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.64, 6.5.13, 6.6.3 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

net: mvneta: fix calls to page_pool_get_stats

Calling page_pool_get_stats in the mvneta driver without checks
leads to kernel crashes.
First the page pool is only available if the bm is not used.
The page pool is also not allocated when the port is stopped.
It can also be not allocated in case of errors.

The current implementation leads to the following crash calling
ethstats on a port that is down or when calling it at the wrong moment:

ble to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000070
[00000070] *pgd=00000000
Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] SMP ARM
Hardware name: Marvell Armada 380/385 (Device Tree)
PC is at page_pool_get_stats+0x18/0x1cc
LR is at mvneta_ethtool_get_stats+0xa0/0xe0 [mvneta]
pc : [] lr : [] psr: a0000013
sp : f1439d48 ip : f1439dc0 fp : 0000001d
r10: 00000100 r9 : c4816b80 r8 : f0d75150
r7 : bf0b400c r6 : c238f000 r5 : 00000000 r4 : f1439d68
r3 : c2091040 r2 : ffffffd8 r1 : f1439d68 r0 : 00000000
Flags: NzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment none
Control: 10c5387d Table: 066b004a DAC: 00000051
Register r0 information: NULL pointer
Register r1 information: 2-page vmalloc region starting at 0xf1438000 allocated at kernel_clone+0x9c/0x390
Register r2 information: non-paged memory
Register r3 information: slab kmalloc-2k start c2091000 pointer offset 64 size 2048
Register r4 information: 2-page vmalloc region starting at 0xf1438000 alloca…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-52780 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.64, 6.5.13, 6.6.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-52780" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-52780 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.1.64, 6.5.13, 6.6.3 — 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: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 6.1.64, 6.5.13, 6.6.3.

🛡️ 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 6.1.64, 6.5.13, 6.6.3
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.64, 6.5.13, 6.6.3 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":"5.19.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.64"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.5.13"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.6.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.3"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52780 linux Fixed in: 6.1.64-1