Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2026-23308)
Summary
Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2026-23308). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.6.130, 6.12.77, 6.18.17, 6.19.7 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
pinctrl: equilibrium: fix warning trace on load
The callback functions 'eqbr_irq_mask()' and 'eqbr_irq_ack()' are also
called in the callback function 'eqbr_irq_mask_ack()'. This is done to
avoid source code duplication. The problem, is that in the function
'eqbr_irq_mask()' also calles the gpiolib function 'gpiochip_disable_irq()'
This generates the following warning trace in the log for every gpio on
load.
[ 6.088111] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 6.092440] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1 at drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c:3810 gpiochip_disable_irq+0x39/0x50
[ 6.097847] Modules linked in:
[ 6.097847] CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W 6.12.59+ #0
[ 6.097847] Tainted: [W]=WARN
[ 6.097847] RIP: 0010:gpiochip_disable_irq+0x39/0x50
[ 6.097847] Code: 39 c6 48 19 c0 21 c6 48 c1 e6 05 48 03 b2 38 03 00 00 48 81 fe 00 f0 ff ff 77 11 48 8b 46 08 f6 c4 02 74 06 f0 80 66 09 fb c3 <0f> 0b 90 0f 1f 40 00 c3 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40
[ 6.097847] RSP: 0000:ffffc9000000b830 EFLAGS: 00010046
[ 6.097847] RAX: 0000000000000045 RBX: ffff888001be02a0 RCX: 0000000000000008
[ 6.097847] RDX: ffff888001be9000 RSI: ffff888001b2dd00 RDI: ffff888001be02a0
[ 6.097847] RBP: ffffc9000000b860 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 6.097847] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffff888001b2a154 R12: ffff888001be0514
[ 6.097847] R13: ffff888001be02a0 R14: 00000000…
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory
Auto-generated summary
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-23308 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.6.130, 6.12.77, 6.18.17, 6.19.7 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2026-23308" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-23308 (Kernel) — CVSS v3 5.5
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 6.6.130, 6.12.77, 6.18.17, 6.19.7 — 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.
A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Kernel.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Kernel.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.5/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 6.6.130, 6.12.77, 6.18.17, 6.19.7.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
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
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1Identify 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。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade Kernel to 6.6.130, 6.12.77, 6.18.17, 6.19.7ステージング環境で 6.6.130, 6.12.77, 6.18.17, 6.19.7 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。
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3Post-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
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2026-23308 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.12.80-r0
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23308 linux Fixed in: 6.12.85-1
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2026-23308 linux-hwe-edge
References
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- advisory github.com
- package git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web github.com