Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-52782)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-52782). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 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/mlx5e: Track xmit submission to PTP WQ after populating metadata map

Ensure the skb is available in metadata mapping to skbs before tracking the
metadata index for detecting undelivered CQEs. If the metadata index is put
in the tracking list before putting the skb in the map, the metadata index
might be used for detecting undelivered CQEs before the relevant skb is
available in the map, which can lead to a null-ptr-deref.

Log:
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000005: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000028-0x000000000000002f]
CPU: 0 PID: 1243 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 6.6.0-rc4+ #108
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Workqueue: events mlx5e_rx_dim_work [mlx5_core]
RIP: 0010:mlx5e_ptp_napi_poll+0x9a4/0x2290 [mlx5_core]
Code: 8c 24 38 cc ff ff 4c 8d 3c c1 4c 89 f9 48 c1 e9 03 42 80 3c 31 00 0f 85 97 0f 00 00 4d 8b 3f 49 8d 7f 28 48 89 f9 48 c1 e9 03 <42> 80 3c 31 00 0f 85 8b 0f 00 00 49 8b 47 28 48 85 c0 0f 84 05 07
RSP: 0018:ffff8884d3c09c88 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: 0000000000000069 RBX: ffff8881160349d8 RCX: 0000000000000005
RDX: ffffed10218f48cf RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: 0000000000000028
RBP: ffff888122707700 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed109a781383
R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 0000000000000003 R12: ffff…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-52782 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.6.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-52782" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-52782 (Kernel)
Patched: 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 6.6.3.

🛡️ 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 6.6.3
```
ステージング環境で 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":"6.6.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.3"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52782 linux Fixed in: 6.6.8-1