Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53067)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53067). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.21, 6.2.8 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

LoongArch: Only call get_timer_irq() once in constant_clockevent_init()

Under CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP=y and CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y, we can see
the following messages on LoongArch, this is because using might_sleep()
in preemption disable context.

[ 0.001127] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...
[ 0.001222] Booting CPU#1...
[ 0.001244] 64-bit Loongson Processor probed (LA464 Core)
[ 0.001247] CPU1 revision is: 0014c012 (Loongson-64bit)
[ 0.001250] FPU1 revision is: 00000000
[ 0.001252] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:283
[ 0.001255] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 0, name: swapper/1
[ 0.001257] preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
[ 0.001258] RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
[ 0.001259] Preemption disabled at:
[ 0.001261] [<9000000000223800>] arch_dup_task_struct+0x20/0x110
[ 0.001272] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc7+ #43
[ 0.001275] Hardware name: Loongson Loongson-3A5000-7A1000-1w-A2101/Loongson-LS3A5000-7A1000-1w-A2101, BIOS vUDK2018-LoongArch-V4.0.05132-beta10 12/13/202
[ 0.001277] Stack : 0072617764726148 0000000000000000 9000000000222f1c 90000001001e0000
[ 0.001286] 90000001001e3be0 90000001001e3be8 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
[ 0.001292] 90000001001e3be8 0000000000000040 90000001001e3cb8 90000001001e3a50
[ 0.001297] 9000000001642000 900000010…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-53067 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.21, 6.2.8 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-53067" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-53067 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.1.21, 6.2.8 — 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 6.1.21, 6.2.8.

🛡️ 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 6.1.21, 6.2.8
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.21, 6.2.8 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":"5.19.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.21"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.2.8"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53067 linux Fixed in: 6.1.25-1