Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-54283)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-54283). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 4.14.322, 4.19.291, 5.4.251, 5.10.188, 5.15.150, 6.1.42, 6.4.7 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

bpf: Address KCSAN report on bpf_lru_list

KCSAN reported a data-race when accessing node->ref.
Although node->ref does not have to be accurate,
take this chance to use a more common READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE()
pattern instead of data_race().

There is an existing bpf_lru_node_is_ref() and bpf_lru_node_set_ref().
This patch also adds bpf_lru_node_clear_ref() to do the
WRITE_ONCE(node->ref, 0) also.

==================================================================
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in __bpf_lru_list_rotate / __htab_lru_percpu_map_update_elem

write to 0xffff888137038deb of 1 bytes by task 11240 on cpu 1:
__bpf_lru_node_move kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:113 [inline]
__bpf_lru_list_rotate_active kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:149 [inline]
__bpf_lru_list_rotate+0x1bf/0x750 kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:240
bpf_lru_list_pop_free_to_local kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:329 [inline]
bpf_common_lru_pop_free kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:447 [inline]
bpf_lru_pop_free+0x638/0xe20 kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:499
prealloc_lru_pop kernel/bpf/hashtab.c:290 [inline]
__htab_lru_percpu_map_update_elem+0xe7/0x820 kernel/bpf/hashtab.c:1316
bpf_percpu_hash_update+0x5e/0x90 kernel/bpf/hashtab.c:2313
bpf_map_update_value+0x2a9/0x370 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:200
generic_map_update_batch+0x3ae/0x4f0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:1687
bpf_map_do_batch+0x2d9/0x3d0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4534
__sys_bpf+0x338/0x810
__do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5096 [inline]
__s…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-54283 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 4.14.322, 4.19.291, 5.4.251, 5.10.188, 5.15.150, 6.1.42, 6.4.7 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-54283" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-54283 (Kernel)
Patched: 4.14.322, 4.19.291, 5.4.251, 5.10.188, 5.15.150, 6.1.42, 6.4.7 — 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 4.14.322, 4.19.291, 5.4.251, 5.10.188, 5.15.150, 6.1.42, 6.4.7.

🛡️ 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 4.14.322, 4.19.291, 5.4.251, 5.10.188, 5.15.150, 6.1.42, 6.4.7
```
ステージング環境で 4.14.322, 4.19.291, 5.4.251, 5.10.188, 5.15.150, 6.1.42, 6.4.7 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":"4.10.0"},{"fixed":"4.14.322"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.15.0"},{"fixed":"4.19.291"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.20.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.251"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.188"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.150"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.42"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.4.7"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54283 linux Fixed in: 5.10.191-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54283 linux