Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53093). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.23, 6.2.8 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

tracing: Do not let histogram values have some modifiers

Histogram values can not be strings, stacktraces, graphs, symbols,
syscalls, or grouped in buckets or log. Give an error if a value is set to
do so.

Note, the histogram code was not prepared to handle these modifiers for
histograms and caused a bug.

Mark Rutland reported:

echo 'p:copy_to_user __arch_copy_to_user n=$arg2' >> /sys/kernel/tracing/kprobe_events

echo 'hist:keys=n:vals=hitcount.buckets=8:sort=hitcount' > /sys/kernel/tracing/events/kprobes/copy_to_user/trigger

cat /sys/kernel/tracing/events/kprobes/copy_to_user/hist

[ 143.694628] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
[ 143.695190] Mem abort info:
[ 143.695362] ESR = 0x0000000096000004
[ 143.695604] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[ 143.695889] SET = 0, FnV = 0
[ 143.696077] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[ 143.696302] FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
[ 143.702381] Data abort info:
[ 143.702614] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004
[ 143.702832] CM = 0, WnR = 0
[ 143.703087] user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=00000000448f9000
[ 143.703407] [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
[ 143.704137] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[ 143.704714] Modules linked in:
[ 143.705273] CPU: 0 PID: 133 Comm: cat Not tainted 6.2.0-00003-g6fc512c10a7c #3
[ 143.706138] Hardware nam…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-53093 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.23, 6.2.8 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-53093" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-53093 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.1.23, 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 6.1.23, 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 6.1.23, 6.2.8
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.23, 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":"4.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.23"}]},{"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-2023-53093 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53093 linux-azure