Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53036)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53036). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.22, 6.2.9 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

drm/amdgpu: Fix call trace warning and hang when removing amdgpu device

On GPUs with RAS enabled, below call trace and hang are observed when
shutting down device.

v2: use DRM device unplugged flag instead of shutdown flag as the check to
prevent memory wipe in shutdown stage.

[ +0.000000] RIP: 0010:amdgpu_vram_mgr_fini+0x18d/0x1c0 [amdgpu]
[ +0.000001] PKRU: 55555554
[ +0.000001] Call Trace:
[ +0.000001]
[ +0.000002] amdgpu_ttm_fini+0x140/0x1c0 [amdgpu]
[ +0.000183] amdgpu_bo_fini+0x27/0xa0 [amdgpu]
[ +0.000184] gmc_v11_0_sw_fini+0x2b/0x40 [amdgpu]
[ +0.000163] amdgpu_device_fini_sw+0xb6/0x510 [amdgpu]
[ +0.000152] amdgpu_driver_release_kms+0x16/0x30 [amdgpu]
[ +0.000090] drm_dev_release+0x28/0x50 [drm]
[ +0.000016] devm_drm_dev_init_release+0x38/0x60 [drm]
[ +0.000011] devm_action_release+0x15/0x20
[ +0.000003] release_nodes+0x40/0xc0
[ +0.000001] devres_release_all+0x9e/0xe0
[ +0.000001] device_unbind_cleanup+0x12/0x80
[ +0.000003] device_release_driver_internal+0xff/0x160
[ +0.000001] driver_detach+0x4a/0x90
[ +0.000001] bus_remove_driver+0x6c/0xf0
[ +0.000001] driver_unregister+0x31/0x50
[ +0.000001] pci_unregister_driver+0x40/0x90
[ +0.000003] amdgpu_exit+0x15/0x120 [amdgpu]

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-53036 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.22, 6.2.9 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-53036" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-53036 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.1.22, 6.2.9 — 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 6.1.22, 6.2.9.

🛡️ 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 6.1.22, 6.2.9
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.22, 6.2.9 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":"5.18.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.22"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.2.9"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53036 linux Fixed in: 6.1.25-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53036 linux