Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-52998)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-52998). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.9 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

net: fec: Use page_pool_put_full_page when freeing rx buffers

The page_pool_release_page was used when freeing rx buffers, and this
function just unmaps the page (if mapped) and does not recycle the page.
So after hundreds of down/up the eth0, the system will out of memory.
For more details, please refer to the following reproduce steps and
bug logs. To solve this issue and refer to the doc of page pool, the
page_pool_put_full_page should be used to replace page_pool_release_page.
Because this API will try to recycle the page if the page refcnt equal to

After testing 20000 times, the issue can not be reproduced anymore
(about testing 391 times the issue will occur on i.MX8MN-EVK before).

Reproduce steps:
Create the test script and run the script. The script content is as
follows:
LOOPS=20000
i=1
while [ $i -le $LOOPS ]
do
echo "TINFO:ENET $curface up and down test $i times"
org_macaddr=$(cat /sys/class/net/eth0/address)
ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 hw ether $org_macaddr up
i=$(expr $i + 1)
done
sleep 5
if cat /sys/class/net/eth0/operstate | grep 'up';then
echo "TEST PASS"
else
echo "TEST FAIL"
fi

Bug detail logs:
TINFO:ENET up and down test 391 times
[ 850.471205] Qualcomm Atheros AR8031/AR8033 30be0000.ethernet-1:00: attached PHY driver (mii_bus:phy_addr=30be0000.ethernet-1:00, irq=POLL)
[ 853.535318] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 853.54…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-52998 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.9 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-52998" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-52998 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.1.9 — 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 6.1.9.

🛡️ 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 6.1.9
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.9 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":"6.1.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.9"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52998 linux Fixed in: 6.1.11-1