Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-54291)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-54291). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.4.4 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

vduse: fix NULL pointer dereference

vduse_vdpa_set_vq_affinity callback can be called
with NULL value as cpu_mask when deleting the vduse
device.

This patch resets virtqueue's IRQ affinity mask value
to set all CPUs instead of dereferencing NULL cpu_mask.

[ 4760.952149] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
[ 4760.959110] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 4760.964247] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 4760.969385] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 4760.971927] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
[ 4760.976112] CPU: 13 PID: 2346 Comm: vdpa Not tainted 6.4.0-rc6+ #4
[ 4760.982291] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R640/0W23H8, BIOS 2.8.1 06/26/2020
[ 4760.989769] RIP: 0010:memcpy_orig+0xc5/0x130
[ 4760.994049] Code: 16 f8 4c 89 07 4c 89 4f 08 4c 89 54 17 f0 4c 89 5c 17 f8 c3 cc cc cc cc 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 83 fa 08 72 1b <4c> 8b 06 4c 8b 4c 16 f8 4c 89 07 4c 89 4c 17 f8 c3 cc cc cc cc 66
[ 4761.012793] RSP: 0018:ffffb1d565abb830 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 4761.018020] RAX: ffff9f4bf6b27898 RBX: ffff9f4be23969c0 RCX: ffff9f4bcadf6400
[ 4761.025152] RDX: 0000000000000008 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff9f4bf6b27898
[ 4761.032286] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000008 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 4761.039416] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000600 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 4761.046549] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000080 R15: ffffb1d565abbb10
[ 4761.053680] FS: 0…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-54291 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.4.4 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-54291" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-54291 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.4.4 — 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 6.4.4.

🛡️ 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 6.4.4
```
ステージング環境で 6.4.4 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":"6.4.0"},{"fixed":"6.4.4"}]}]