Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-54208)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-54208). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.4.235, 5.10.173, 5.15.99, 6.1.16, 6.2.3 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

media: ov5675: Fix memleak in ov5675_init_controls()

There is a kmemleak when testing the media/i2c/ov5675.c with bpf mock
device:

AssertionError: unreferenced object 0xffff888107362160 (size 16):
comm "python3", pid 277, jiffies 4294832798 (age 20.722s)
hex dump (first 16 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<00000000abe7d67c>] __kmalloc_node+0x44/0x1b0
[<000000008a725aac>] kvmalloc_node+0x34/0x180
[<000000009a53cd11>] v4l2_ctrl_handler_init_class+0x11d/0x180
[videodev]
[<0000000055b46db0>] ov5675_probe+0x38b/0x897 [ov5675]
[<00000000153d886c>] i2c_device_probe+0x28d/0x680
[<000000004afb7e8f>] really_probe+0x17c/0x3f0
[<00000000ff2f18e4>] __driver_probe_device+0xe3/0x170
[<000000000a001029>] driver_probe_device+0x49/0x120
[<00000000e39743c7>] __device_attach_driver+0xf7/0x150
[<00000000d32fd070>] bus_for_each_drv+0x114/0x180
[<000000009083ac41>] __device_attach+0x1e5/0x2d0
[<0000000015b4a830>] bus_probe_device+0x126/0x140
[<000000007813deaf>] device_add+0x810/0x1130
[<000000007becb867>] i2c_new_client_device+0x386/0x540
[<000000007f9cf4b4>] of_i2c_register_device+0xf1/0x110
[<00000000ebfdd032>] of_i2c_notify+0xfc/0x1f0

ov5675_init_controls() won't clean all the allocated resources in fail
path, which may causes the memleaks. Add v4l2_ctrl_handler_free() to
prevent memleak.

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-54208 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.4.235, 5.10.173, 5.15.99, 6.1.16, 6.2.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-54208" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-54208 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.4.235, 5.10.173, 5.15.99, 6.1.16, 6.2.3 — 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 5.4.235, 5.10.173, 5.15.99, 6.1.16, 6.2.3.

🛡️ 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 5.4.235, 5.10.173, 5.15.99, 6.1.16, 6.2.3
```
ステージング環境で 5.4.235, 5.10.173, 5.15.99, 6.1.16, 6.2.3 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":"5.4.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.235"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.173"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.99"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.16"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.2.3"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54208 linux Fixed in: 5.10.178-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54208 linux-hwe-edge