Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-52982)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-52982). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.11 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

fscache: Use wait_on_bit() to wait for the freeing of relinquished volume

The freeing of relinquished volume will wake up the pending volume
acquisition by using wake_up_bit(), however it is mismatched with
wait_var_event() used in fscache_wait_on_volume_collision() and it will
never wake up the waiter in the wait-queue because these two functions
operate on different wait-queues.

According to the implementation in fscache_wait_on_volume_collision(),
if the wake-up of pending acquisition is delayed longer than 20 seconds
(e.g., due to the delay of on-demand fd closing), the first
wait_var_event_timeout() will timeout and the following wait_var_event()
will hang forever as shown below:

FS-Cache: Potential volume collision new=00000024 old=00000022
......
INFO: task mount:1148 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
Not tainted 6.1.0-rc6+ #1
task:mount state:D stack:0 pid:1148 ppid:1
Call Trace:

__schedule+0x2f6/0xb80
schedule+0x67/0xe0
fscache_wait_on_volume_collision.cold+0x80/0x82
__fscache_acquire_volume+0x40d/0x4e0
erofs_fscache_register_volume+0x51/0xe0 [erofs]
erofs_fscache_register_fs+0x19c/0x240 [erofs]
erofs_fc_fill_super+0x746/0xaf0 [erofs]
vfs_get_super+0x7d/0x100
get_tree_nodev+0x16/0x20
erofs_fc_get_tree+0x20/0x30 [erofs]
vfs_get_tree+0x24/0xb0
path_mount+0x2fa/0xa90
do_mount+0x7c/0xa0
__x64_sys_mount+0x8b/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0x30/0x60
en…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-52982 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.11 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-52982" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-52982 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.1.11 — 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 6.1.11.

🛡️ 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 6.1.11
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.11 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":"5.17.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.11"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52982 linux Fixed in: 6.1.11-1