Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-54126)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-54126). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.4.243, 5.10.180, 5.15.111, 6.1.28, 6.2.15, 6.3.2 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

crypto: safexcel - Cleanup ring IRQ workqueues on load failure

A failure loading the safexcel driver results in the following warning
on boot, because the IRQ affinity has not been correctly cleaned up.
Ensure we clean up the affinity and workqueues on a failure to load the
driver.

crypto-safexcel: probe of f2800000.crypto failed with error -2
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 232 at kernel/irq/manage.c:1913 free_irq+0x300/0x340
Modules linked in: hwmon mdio_i2c crypto_safexcel(+) md5 sha256_generic libsha256 authenc libdes omap_rng rng_core nft_masq nft_nat nft_chain_nat nf_nat nft_ct nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_tables libcrc32c nfnetlink fuse autofs4
CPU: 1 PID: 232 Comm: systemd-udevd Tainted: G W 6.1.6-00002-g9d4898824677 #3
Hardware name: MikroTik RB5009 (DT)
pstate: 600000c5 (nZCv daIF -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : free_irq+0x300/0x340
lr : free_irq+0x2e0/0x340
sp : ffff800008fa3890
x29: ffff800008fa3890 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 0000000000000000
x26: ffff8000008e6dc0 x25: ffff000009034cac x24: ffff000009034d50
x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 000000000000004a x21: ffff0000093e0d80
x20: ffff000009034c00 x19: ffff00000615fc00 x18: 0000000000000000
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 000075f5c1584c5e
x14: 0000000000000017 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000040
x11: ffff000000579b60 x10: ffff000000579b62 x9 : ffff800008bbe…

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

Auto-generated summary

Assembled by SecPulse from the source data (CVSS, CWE, affected versions) using templates — no AI involved. Check the original description and references below for exact details.

A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-54126 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.4.243, 5.10.180, 5.15.111, 6.1.28, 6.2.15, 6.3.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-54126" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-54126 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.4.243, 5.10.180, 5.15.111, 6.1.28, 6.2.15, 6.3.2 — 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 5.4.243, 5.10.180, 5.15.111, 6.1.28, 6.2.15, 6.3.2.

🛡️ 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 5.4.243, 5.10.180, 5.15.111, 6.1.28, 6.2.15, 6.3.2
```
ステージング環境で 5.4.243, 5.10.180, 5.15.111, 6.1.28, 6.2.15, 6.3.2 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":"4.13.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.243"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.180"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.111"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.28"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.2.15"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.3.0"},{"fixed":"6.3.2"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54126 linux Fixed in: 5.10.191-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54126 linux