Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-54274)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-54274). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 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:

RDMA/srpt: Add a check for valid 'mad_agent' pointer

When unregistering MAD agent, srpt module has a non-null check
for 'mad_agent' pointer before invoking ib_unregister_mad_agent().
This check can pass if 'mad_agent' variable holds an error value.
The 'mad_agent' can have an error value for a short window when
srpt_add_one() and srpt_remove_one() is executed simultaneously.

In srpt module, added a valid pointer check for 'sport->mad_agent'
before unregistering MAD agent.

This issue can hit when RoCE driver unregisters ib_device

Stack Trace:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000004d
PGD 145003067 P4D 145003067 PUD 2324fe067 PMD 0
Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 10 PID: 4459 Comm: kworker/u80:0 Kdump: loaded Tainted: P
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R640/06NR82, BIOS 2.5.4 01/13/2020
Workqueue: bnxt_re bnxt_re_task [bnxt_re]
RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x19/0x40
Call Trace:
ib_unregister_mad_agent+0x46/0x2f0 [ib_core]
IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): bond0: link becomes ready
? __schedule+0x20b/0x560
srpt_unregister_mad_agent+0x93/0xd0 [ib_srpt]
srpt_remove_one+0x20/0x150 [ib_srpt]
remove_client_context+0x88/0xd0 [ib_core]
bond0: (slave p2p1): link status definitely up, 100000 Mbps full duplex
disable_device+0x8a/0x160 [ib_core]
bond0: active interface up!
? kernfs_name_hash+0x12/0x80
(NULL device *): Bonding Info Received: rdev: 000000…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-54274 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 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-2023-54274" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-54274 (Kernel)
Patched: 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 5.10.180, 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 5.10.180, 5.15.111, 6.1.28, 6.2.15, 6.3.2
```
ステージング環境で 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":"3.3.0"},{"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-2023-54274 linux Fixed in: 5.10.191-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54274 linux