Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-52808)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-52808). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 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:

scsi: hisi_sas: Set debugfs_dir pointer to NULL after removing debugfs

If init debugfs failed during device registration due to memory allocation
failure, debugfs_remove_recursive() is called, after which debugfs_dir is
not set to NULL. debugfs_remove_recursive() will be called again during
device removal. As a result, illegal pointer is accessed.

[ 1665.467244] hisi_sas_v3_hw 0000:b4:02.0: failed to init debugfs!
...
[ 1669.836708] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000000a0
[ 1669.872669] pc : down_write+0x24/0x70
[ 1669.876315] lr : down_write+0x1c/0x70
[ 1669.879961] sp : ffff000036f53a30
[ 1669.883260] x29: ffff000036f53a30 x28: ffffa027c31549f8
[ 1669.888547] x27: ffffa027c3140000 x26: 0000000000000000
[ 1669.893834] x25: ffffa027bf37c270 x24: ffffa027bf37c270
[ 1669.899122] x23: ffff0000095406b8 x22: ffff0000095406a8
[ 1669.904408] x21: 0000000000000000 x20: ffffa027bf37c310
[ 1669.909695] x19: 00000000000000a0 x18: ffff8027dcd86f10
[ 1669.914982] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000
[ 1669.920268] x15: 0000000000000000 x14: ffffa0274014f870
[ 1669.925555] x13: 0000000000000040 x12: 0000000000000228
[ 1669.930842] x11: 0000000000000020 x10: 0000000000000bb0
[ 1669.936129] x9 : ffff000036f537f0 x8 : ffff80273088ca10
[ 1669.941416] x7 : 000000000000001d x6 : 00000000ffffffff
[ 1669.946702] x5 : ffff000008a36310 x4 : ffff80273088be00
[ 1669.951989] x3 : f…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-52808 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.140, 6.1.64, 6.5.13, 6.6.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-52808" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-52808 (Kernel)
Patched: 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 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 5.15.140, 6.1.64, 6.5.13, 6.6.3
```
ステージング環境で 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":"4.5.0"},{"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-2023-52808 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52808 linux