Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-52833)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-52833). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 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:

Bluetooth: btusb: Add date->evt_skb is NULL check

fix crash because of null pointers

[ 6104.969662] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000c8
[ 6104.969667] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 6104.969668] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 6104.969670] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 6104.969673] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[ 6104.969684] RIP: 0010:btusb_mtk_hci_wmt_sync+0x144/0x220 [btusb]
[ 6104.969688] RSP: 0018:ffffb8d681533d48 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 6104.969689] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8ad560bb2000 RCX: 0000000000000006
[ 6104.969691] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffb8d681533d08 RDI: 0000000000000000
[ 6104.969692] RBP: ffffb8d681533d70 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001
[ 6104.969694] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 00000000fa83b2da R12: ffff8ad461d1d7c0
[ 6104.969695] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8ad459618c18 R15: ffffb8d681533d90
[ 6104.969697] FS: 00007f5a1cab9d40(0000) GS:ffff8ad578200000(0000) knlGS:00000
[ 6104.969699] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 6104.969700] CR2: 00000000000000c8 CR3: 000000018620c001 CR4: 0000000000760ef0
[ 6104.969701] PKRU: 55555554
[ 6104.969702] Call Trace:
[ 6104.969708] btusb_mtk_shutdown+0x44/0x80 [btusb]
[ 6104.969732] hci_dev_do_close+0x470/0x5c0 [bluetooth]
[ 6104.969748] hci_rfkill_set_block+0x56/0xa0 [bluetooth]
[ 6104.969753] rfkill_set_block+0x92/0x160
[ 6104.969755] rfkill_fop_write+0x136/0x1e0
[ 6104.…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-52833 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 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-2023-52833" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-52833 (Kernel)
Patched: 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 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 5.10.202, 5.15.140, 6.1.64, 6.5.13, 6.6.3
```
ステージング環境で 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":"5.3.0"},{"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-2023-52833 linux Fixed in: 5.10.205-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52833 linux