Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53278)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53278). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.18, 6.2.5 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

ubifs: Fix memory leak in ubifs_sysfs_init()

When insmod ubifs.ko, a kmemleak reported as below:

unreferenced object 0xffff88817fb1a780 (size 8):
comm "insmod", pid 25265, jiffies 4295239702 (age 100.130s)
hex dump (first 8 bytes):
75 62 69 66 73 00 ff ff ubifs...
backtrace:
[] slab_post_alloc_hook+0x9c/0x3c0
[] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x183/0x410
[] kstrdup+0x3a/0x80
[] kstrdup_const+0x66/0x80
[] kvasprintf_const+0x155/0x190
[] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x5b/0x150
[] kobject_set_name+0xbb/0xf0
[] do_one_initcall+0x14c/0x5a0
[] do_init_module+0x1f0/0x660
[] load_module+0x6d7e/0x7590
[] __do_sys_finit_module+0x19f/0x230
[] __x64_sys_finit_module+0x73/0xb0
[] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
[] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

When kset_register() failed, we should call kset_put to cleanup it.

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-53278 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.18, 6.2.5 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-53278" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-53278 (Kernel)
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Patched: 6.1.18, 6.2.5 — 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 6.1.18, 6.2.5.

🛡️ 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 6.1.18, 6.2.5
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.18, 6.2.5 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":"5.17.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.18"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.2.5"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53278 linux Fixed in: 6.1.20-1