Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53089). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 4.14.311, 4.19.279, 5.4.238, 5.10.176, 5.15.104, 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:

ext4: fix task hung in ext4_xattr_delete_inode

Syzbot reported a hung task problem:

INFO: task syz-executor232:5073 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
Not tainted 6.2.0-rc2-syzkaller-00024-g512dee0c00ad #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz-exec232 state:D stack:21024 pid:5073 ppid:5072 flags:0x00004004
Call Trace:

context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5244 [inline]
__schedule+0x995/0xe20 kernel/sched/core.c:6555
schedule+0xcb/0x190 kernel/sched/core.c:6631
__wait_on_freeing_inode fs/inode.c:2196 [inline]
find_inode_fast+0x35a/0x4c0 fs/inode.c:950
iget_locked+0xb1/0x830 fs/inode.c:1273
__ext4_iget+0x22e/0x3ed0 fs/ext4/inode.c:4861
ext4_xattr_inode_iget+0x68/0x4e0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:389
ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0x1a7/0xe50 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1148
ext4_xattr_delete_inode+0xb04/0xcd0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2880
ext4_evict_inode+0xd7c/0x10b0 fs/ext4/inode.c:296
evict+0x2a4/0x620 fs/inode.c:664
ext4_orphan_cleanup+0xb60/0x1340 fs/ext4/orphan.c:474
__ext4_fill_super fs/ext4/super.c:5516 [inline]
ext4_fill_super+0x81cd/0x8700 fs/ext4/super.c:5644
get_tree_bdev+0x400/0x620 fs/super.c:1282
vfs_get_tree+0x88/0x270 fs/super.c:1489
do_new_mount+0x289/0xad0 fs/namespace.c:3145
do_mount fs/namespace.c:3488 [inline]
__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3697 [inline]
__se_sys_mount+0x2d3/0x3c0 fs/nam…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-53089 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 4.14.311, 4.19.279, 5.4.238, 5.10.176, 5.15.104, 6.1.21, 6.2.8 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-53089" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-53089 (Kernel)
Patched: 4.14.311, 4.19.279, 5.4.238, 5.10.176, 5.15.104, 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 4.14.311, 4.19.279, 5.4.238, 5.10.176, 5.15.104, 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 4.14.311, 4.19.279, 5.4.238, 5.10.176, 5.15.104, 6.1.21, 6.2.8
```
ステージング環境で 4.14.311, 4.19.279, 5.4.238, 5.10.176, 5.15.104, 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":"4.13.0"},{"fixed":"4.14.311"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.15.0"},{"fixed":"4.19.279"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.20.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.238"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.176"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.104"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"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-2023-53089 linux Fixed in: 5.10.178-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53089 linux