Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2026-23188)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2026-23188). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.12.70, 6.18.10 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

net: usb: r8152: fix resume reset deadlock

rtl8152 can trigger device reset during reset which
potentially can result in a deadlock:

**** DPM device timeout after 10 seconds; 15 seconds until panic ****
Call Trace:

schedule+0x483/0x1370
schedule_preempt_disabled+0x15/0x30
__mutex_lock_common+0x1fd/0x470
__rtl8152_set_mac_address+0x80/0x1f0
dev_set_mac_address+0x7f/0x150
rtl8152_post_reset+0x72/0x150
usb_reset_device+0x1d0/0x220
rtl8152_resume+0x99/0xc0
usb_resume_interface+0x3e/0xc0
usb_resume_both+0x104/0x150
usb_resume+0x22/0x110

The problem is that rtl8152 resume calls reset under
tp->control mutex while reset basically re-enters rtl8152
and attempts to acquire the same tp->control lock once
again.

Reset INACCESSIBLE device outside of tp->control mutex
scope to avoid recursive mutex_lock() deadlock.

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-23188 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.12.70, 6.18.10 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2026-23188" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2026-23188 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.12.70, 6.18.10 — 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 6.12.70, 6.18.10.

🛡️ 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 6.12.70, 6.18.10
```
ステージング環境で 6.12.70, 6.18.10 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":"6.11.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.70"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.18.10"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2026-23188 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.73-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23188 linux Fixed in: 6.12.73-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2026-23188 linux-hwe-edge