Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-52900)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-52900). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 4.14.304, 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:

nilfs2: fix general protection fault in nilfs_btree_insert()

If nilfs2 reads a corrupted disk image and tries to reads a b-tree node
block by calling __nilfs_btree_get_block() against an invalid virtual
block address, it returns -ENOENT because conversion of the virtual block
address to a disk block address fails. However, this return value is the
same as the internal code that b-tree lookup routines return to indicate
that the block being searched does not exist, so functions that operate on
that b-tree may misbehave.

When nilfs_btree_insert() receives this spurious 'not found' code from
nilfs_btree_do_lookup(), it misunderstands that the 'not found' check was
successful and continues the insert operation using incomplete lookup path
data, causing the following crash:

general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
0xdffffc0000000005: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000028-0x000000000000002f]
...
RIP: 0010:nilfs_btree_get_nonroot_node fs/nilfs2/btree.c:418 [inline]
RIP: 0010:nilfs_btree_prepare_insert fs/nilfs2/btree.c:1077 [inline]
RIP: 0010:nilfs_btree_insert+0x6d3/0x1c10 fs/nilfs2/btree.c:1238
Code: bc 24 80 00 00 00 4c 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 28 00 74 08 4c 89
ff e8 4b 02 92 fe 4d 8b 3f 49 83 c7 28 4c 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c
28 00 74 08 4c 89 ff e8 2e 02 92 fe 4d 8b 3f 49 83 c7 02
...
Call Trace:

nilfs_bmap_do_insert fs/nil…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-52900 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 4.14.304, 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-2023-52900" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-52900 (Kernel)
Patched: 4.14.304, 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 4.14.304, 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 4.14.304, 4.19.271, 5.4.230, 5.10.165, 5.15.90, 6.1.8
```
ステージング環境で 4.14.304, 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":"2.6.30"},{"fixed":"4.14.304"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.15.0"},{"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-2023-52900 linux Fixed in: 5.10.178-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52900 linux-azure Fixed in: 4.15.0-1163.178~14.04.1