Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53011)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53011). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.91, 6.1.9 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

net: stmmac: enable all safety features by default

In the original implementation of dwmac5
commit 8bf993a5877e ("net: stmmac: Add support for DWMAC5 and implement Safety Features")
all safety features were enabled by default.

Later it seems some implementations didn't have support for all the
features, so in
commit 5ac712dcdfef ("net: stmmac: enable platform specific safety features")
the safety_feat_cfg structure was added to the callback and defined for
some platforms to selectively enable these safety features.

The problem is that only certain platforms were given that software
support. If the automotive safety package bit is set in the hardware
features register the safety feature callback is called for the platform,
and for platforms that didn't get a safety_feat_cfg defined this results
in the following NULL pointer dereference:

[ 7.933303] Call trace:
[ 7.935812] dwmac5_safety_feat_config+0x20/0x170 [stmmac]
[ 7.941455] __stmmac_open+0x16c/0x474 [stmmac]
[ 7.946117] stmmac_open+0x38/0x70 [stmmac]
[ 7.950414] __dev_open+0x100/0x1dc
[ 7.954006] __dev_change_flags+0x18c/0x204
[ 7.958297] dev_change_flags+0x24/0x6c
[ 7.962237] do_setlink+0x2b8/0xfa4
[ 7.965827] __rtnl_newlink+0x4ec/0x840
[ 7.969766] rtnl_newlink+0x50/0x80
[ 7.973353] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x12c/0x374
[ 7.977557] netlink_rcv_skb+0x5c/0x130
[ 7.981500] rtnetlink_rcv+0x18/0x2c
[ 7.985172…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-53011 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.91, 6.1.9 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-53011" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-53011 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 5.15.91, 6.1.9 — 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 5.15.91, 6.1.9.

🛡️ 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 5.15.91, 6.1.9
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.91, 6.1.9 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":"5.14.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.91"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.9"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53011 linux Fixed in: 6.1.11-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53011 linux-hwe-edge