Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53342)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53342). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.46, 6.4.11 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

net: marvell: prestera: fix handling IPv4 routes with nhid

Fix handling IPv4 routes referencing a nexthop via its id by replacing
calls to fib_info_nh() with fib_info_nhc().

Trying to add an IPv4 route referencing a nextop via nhid:

$ ip link set up swp5
$ ip a a 10.0.0.1/24 dev swp5
$ ip nexthop add dev swp5 id 20 via 10.0.0.2
$ ip route add 10.0.1.0/24 nhid 20

triggers warnings when trying to handle the route:

[ 528.805763] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 528.810437] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 53 at include/net/nexthop.h:468 __prestera_fi_is_direct+0x2c/0x68 [prestera]
[ 528.820434] Modules linked in: prestera_pci act_gact act_police sch_ingress cls_u32 cls_flower prestera arm64_delta_tn48m_dn_led(O) arm64_delta_tn48m_dn_cpld(O) [last unloaded: prestera_pci]
[ 528.837485] CPU: 3 PID: 53 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Tainted: G O 6.4.5 #1
[ 528.845178] Hardware name: delta,tn48m-dn (DT)
[ 528.849641] Workqueue: prestera_ordered __prestera_router_fib_event_work [prestera]
[ 528.857352] pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 528.864347] pc : __prestera_fi_is_direct+0x2c/0x68 [prestera]
[ 528.870135] lr : prestera_k_arb_fib_evt+0xb20/0xd50 [prestera]
[ 528.876007] sp : ffff80000b20bc90
[ 528.879336] x29: ffff80000b20bc90 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffff0001374d3a48
[ 528.886510] x26: ffff000105604000 x25: ffff000134af8a28 x24: ffff0001374d3800
[…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-53342 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.46, 6.4.11 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-53342" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-53342 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 6.1.46, 6.4.11 — 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 6.1.46, 6.4.11.

🛡️ 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 6.1.46, 6.4.11
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.46, 6.4.11 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":"6.1.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.46"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.4.11"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53342 linux Fixed in: 6.1.52-1