Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-54070)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-54070). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.5.4 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

igb: clean up in all error paths when enabling SR-IOV

After commit 50f303496d92 ("igb: Enable SR-IOV after reinit"), removing
the igb module could hang or crash (depending on the machine) when the
module has been loaded with the max_vfs parameter set to some value != 0.

In case of one test machine with a dual port 82580, this hang occurred:

[ 232.480687] igb 0000:41:00.1: removed PHC on enp65s0f1
[ 233.093257] igb 0000:41:00.1: IOV Disabled
[ 233.329969] pcieport 0000:40:01.0: AER: Multiple Uncorrected (Non-Fatal) err0
[ 233.340302] igb 0000:41:00.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Uncorrected (Non-Fata)
[ 233.352248] igb 0000:41:00.0: device [8086:1516] error status/mask=00100000
[ 233.361088] igb 0000:41:00.0: [20] UnsupReq (First)
[ 233.368183] igb 0000:41:00.0: AER: TLP Header: 40000001 0000040f cdbfc00c c
[ 233.376846] igb 0000:41:00.1: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Uncorrected (Non-Fata)
[ 233.388779] igb 0000:41:00.1: device [8086:1516] error status/mask=00100000
[ 233.397629] igb 0000:41:00.1: [20] UnsupReq (First)
[ 233.404736] igb 0000:41:00.1: AER: TLP Header: 40000001 0000040f cdbfc00c c
[ 233.538214] pci 0000:41:00.1: AER: can't recover (no error_detected callback)
[ 233.538401] igb 0000:41:00.0: removed PHC on enp65s0f0
[ 233.546197] pcieport 0000:40:01.0: AER: device recovery failed
[ 234.157244] igb 0000:41:00.0: IOV Disabled
[ 371.619705] INFO…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-54070 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.5.4 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-54070" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-54070 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.5.4 — 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 6.5.4.

🛡️ 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 6.5.4
```
ステージング環境で 6.5.4 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":"6.3.0"},{"fixed":"6.5.4"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54070 linux Fixed in: 6.5.6-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54070 linux-hwe-edge