Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53144)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53144). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.20, 6.2.7 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

erofs: fix wrong kunmap when using LZMA on HIGHMEM platforms

As the call trace shown, the root cause is kunmap incorrect pages:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000
CPU: 1 PID: 40 Comm: kworker/u5:0 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc5 #4
Workqueue: erofs_worker z_erofs_decompressqueue_work
EIP: z_erofs_lzma_decompress+0x34b/0x8ac
z_erofs_decompress+0x12/0x14
z_erofs_decompress_queue+0x7e7/0xb1c
z_erofs_decompressqueue_work+0x32/0x60
process_one_work+0x24b/0x4d8
? process_one_work+0x1a4/0x4d8
worker_thread+0x14c/0x3fc
kthread+0xe6/0x10c
? rescuer_thread+0x358/0x358
? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x18/0x18
ret_from_fork+0x1c/0x28
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

The bug is trivial and should be fixed now. It has no impact on
!HIGHMEM platforms.

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-53144 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.20, 6.2.7 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-53144" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-53144 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.1.20, 6.2.7 — 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 6.1.20, 6.2.7.

🛡️ 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 6.1.20, 6.2.7
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.20, 6.2.7 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":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.20"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.2.7"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53144 linux Fixed in: 6.1.20-1