Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-54194)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-54194). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.190, 5.15.126, 6.1.45, 6.4.10 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

exfat: use kvmalloc_array/kvfree instead of kmalloc_array/kfree

The call stack shown below is a scenario in the Linux 4.19 kernel.
Allocating memory failed where exfat fs use kmalloc_array due to
system memory fragmentation, while the u-disk was inserted without
recognition.
Devices such as u-disk using the exfat file system are pluggable and
may be insert into the system at any time.
However, long-term running systems cannot guarantee the continuity of
physical memory. Therefore, it's necessary to address this issue.

Binder:2632_6: page allocation failure: order:4,
mode:0x6040c0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP), nodemask=(null)
Call trace:
[242178.097582] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x4
[242178.097589] dump_stack+0xf4/0x134
[242178.097598] warn_alloc+0xd8/0x144
[242178.097603] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1364/0x1384
[242178.097608] kmalloc_order+0x2c/0x510
[242178.097612] kmalloc_order_trace+0x40/0x16c
[242178.097618] __kmalloc+0x360/0x408
[242178.097624] load_alloc_bitmap+0x160/0x284
[242178.097628] exfat_fill_super+0xa3c/0xe7c
[242178.097635] mount_bdev+0x2e8/0x3a0
[242178.097638] exfat_fs_mount+0x40/0x50
[242178.097643] mount_fs+0x138/0x2e8
[242178.097649] vfs_kern_mount+0x90/0x270
[242178.097655] do_mount+0x798/0x173c
[242178.097659] ksys_mount+0x114/0x1ac
[242178.097665] __arm64_sys_mount+0x24/0x34
[242178.097671] el0_svc_common+0xb8/0x1b8
[242178.097676] el0_svc_handler+0x74/0x90
[242178.097681] el0_s…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-54194 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.190, 5.15.126, 6.1.45, 6.4.10 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-54194" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-54194 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.10.190, 5.15.126, 6.1.45, 6.4.10 — 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 5.10.190, 5.15.126, 6.1.45, 6.4.10.

🛡️ 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 5.10.190, 5.15.126, 6.1.45, 6.4.10
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.190, 5.15.126, 6.1.45, 6.4.10 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":"5.7.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.190"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.126"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.45"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.4.10"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54194 linux Fixed in: 5.10.191-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54194 linux