Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-52899)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-52899). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 4.19.271, 5.4.230, 5.10.165, 5.15.90, 6.1.8 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

Add exception protection processing for vd in axi_chan_handle_err function

Since there is no protection for vd, a kernel panic will be
triggered here in exceptional cases.

You can refer to the processing of axi_chan_block_xfer_complete function

The triggered kernel panic is as follows:

[ 67.848444] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000060
[ 67.848447] Mem abort info:
[ 67.848449] ESR = 0x96000004
[ 67.848451] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[ 67.848454] SET = 0, FnV = 0
[ 67.848456] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[ 67.848458] Data abort info:
[ 67.848460] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004
[ 67.848462] CM = 0, WnR = 0
[ 67.848465] user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=00000800c4c0b000
[ 67.848468] [0000000000000060] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
[ 67.848472] Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] SMP
[ 67.848475] Modules linked in: dmatest
[ 67.848479] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.10.100-emu_x2rc+ #11
[ 67.848483] pstate: 62000085 (nZCv daIf -PAN -UAO +TCO BTYPE=--)
[ 67.848487] pc : axi_chan_handle_err+0xc4/0x230
[ 67.848491] lr : axi_chan_handle_err+0x30/0x230
[ 67.848493] sp : ffff0803fe55ae50
[ 67.848495] x29: ffff0803fe55ae50 x28: ffff800011212200
[ 67.848500] x27: ffff0800c42c0080 x26: ffff0800c097c080
[ 67.848504] x25: ffff800010d33880 x24: ffff80001139d850
[ 67.848508] x23: ffff080…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-52899 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 4.19.271, 5.4.230, 5.10.165, 5.15.90, 6.1.8 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-52899" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-52899 (Kernel)
Patched: 4.19.271, 5.4.230, 5.10.165, 5.15.90, 6.1.8 — 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 4.19.271, 5.4.230, 5.10.165, 5.15.90, 6.1.8.

🛡️ 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 4.19.271, 5.4.230, 5.10.165, 5.15.90, 6.1.8
```
ステージング環境で 4.19.271, 5.4.230, 5.10.165, 5.15.90, 6.1.8 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":"4.17.0"},{"fixed":"4.19.271"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.20.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.230"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.165"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.90"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.8"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52899 linux Fixed in: 5.10.178-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52899 linux