Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-54196)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-54196). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.113, 6.1.81, 6.3.4 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

fs/ntfs3: Fix NULL pointer dereference in 'ni_write_inode'

Syzbot found the following issue:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000016
Mem abort info:
ESR = 0x0000000096000006
EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
SET = 0, FnV = 0
EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
FSC = 0x06: level 2 translation fault
Data abort info:
ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000006
CM = 0, WnR = 0
user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=000000010af56000
[0000000000000016] pgd=08000001090da003, p4d=08000001090da003, pud=08000001090ce003, pmd=0000000000000000
Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000006 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 3036 Comm: syz-executor206 Not tainted 6.0.0-rc6-syzkaller-17739-g16c9f284e746 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/26/2022
pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : is_rec_inuse fs/ntfs3/ntfs.h:313 [inline]
pc : ni_write_inode+0xac/0x798 fs/ntfs3/frecord.c:3232
lr : ni_write_inode+0xa0/0x798 fs/ntfs3/frecord.c:3226
sp : ffff8000126c3800
x29: ffff8000126c3860 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffff0000c8b02000
x26: ffff0000c7502320 x25: ffff0000c7502288 x24: 0000000000000000
x23: ffff80000cbec91c x22: ffff0000c8b03000 x21: ffff0000c8b02000
x20: 0000000000000001 x19: ffff0000c75024d8 x18: 00000000000000c0
x17: ffff80000dd1b198 x16: ffff80000db59158 x15: ffff0000c4b6b500
x14: 00000000000000b8 x13:…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-54196 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.113, 6.1.81, 6.3.4 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-54196" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-54196 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.15.113, 6.1.81, 6.3.4 — 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 5.15.113, 6.1.81, 6.3.4.

🛡️ 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 5.15.113, 6.1.81, 6.3.4
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.113, 6.1.81, 6.3.4 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":"5.15.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.113"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.81"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.3.4"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54196 linux Fixed in: 6.1.82-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54196 linux