Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-52796)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-52796). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 4.19.300, 5.4.262, 5.10.202, 5.15.140, 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:

ipvlan: add ipvlan_route_v6_outbound() helper

Inspired by syzbot reports using a stack of multiple ipvlan devices.

Reduce stack size needed in ipvlan_process_v6_outbound() by moving
the flowi6 struct used for the route lookup in an non inlined
helper. ipvlan_route_v6_outbound() needs 120 bytes on the stack,
immediately reclaimed.

Also make sure ipvlan_process_v4_outbound() is not inlined.

We might also have to lower MAX_NEST_DEV, because only syzbot uses
setups with more than four stacked devices.

BUG: TASK stack guard page was hit at ffffc9000e803ff8 (stack is ffffc9000e804000..ffffc9000e808000)
stack guard page: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN
CPU: 0 PID: 13442 Comm: syz-executor.4 Not tainted 6.1.52-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/09/2023
RIP: 0010:kasan_check_range+0x4/0x2a0 mm/kasan/generic.c:188
Code: 48 01 c6 48 89 c7 e8 db 4e c1 03 31 c0 5d c3 cc 0f 0b eb 02 0f 0b b8 ea ff ff ff 5d c3 cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 55 48 89 e5 <41> 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 b0 01 48 85 f6 0f 84 a4 01 00 00 48 89
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000e804000 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff817e5bf2
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffffff887c6568
RBP: ffffc9000e804000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: dffffc0000000001 R12: 1ffff92001d0080c
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffffffff87e6b100 R15: 00000…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-52796 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 4.19.300, 5.4.262, 5.10.202, 5.15.140, 6.1.64, 6.5.13, 6.6.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-52796" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-52796 (Kernel)
Patched: 4.19.300, 5.4.262, 5.10.202, 5.15.140, 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 4.19.300, 5.4.262, 5.10.202, 5.15.140, 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 4.19.300, 5.4.262, 5.10.202, 5.15.140, 6.1.64, 6.5.13, 6.6.3
```
ステージング環境で 4.19.300, 5.4.262, 5.10.202, 5.15.140, 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":"3.19.0"},{"fixed":"4.19.300"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.20.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.262"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.202"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.140"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"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-2023-52796 linux Fixed in: 5.10.205-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52796 linux-aws