Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53475)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53475). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.178, 5.15.107, 6.1.24, 6.2.11 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

usb: xhci: tegra: fix sleep in atomic call

When we set the dual-role port to Host mode, we observed the following
splat:
[ 167.057718] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at
include/linux/sched/mm.h:229
[ 167.057872] Workqueue: events tegra_xusb_usb_phy_work
[ 167.057954] Call trace:
[ 167.057962] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x210
[ 167.057996] show_stack+0x30/0x50
[ 167.058020] dump_stack_lvl+0x64/0x84
[ 167.058065] dump_stack+0x14/0x34
[ 167.058100] __might_resched+0x144/0x180
[ 167.058140] __might_sleep+0x64/0xd0
[ 167.058171] slab_pre_alloc_hook.constprop.0+0xa8/0x110
[ 167.058202] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x74/0x2b0
[ 167.058233] kvasprintf+0xa4/0x190
[ 167.058261] kasprintf+0x58/0x90
[ 167.058285] tegra_xusb_find_port_node.isra.0+0x58/0xd0
[ 167.058334] tegra_xusb_find_port+0x38/0xa0
[ 167.058380] tegra_xusb_padctl_get_usb3_companion+0x38/0xd0
[ 167.058430] tegra_xhci_id_notify+0x8c/0x1e0
[ 167.058473] notifier_call_chain+0x88/0x100
[ 167.058506] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x44/0x70
[ 167.058537] tegra_xusb_usb_phy_work+0x60/0xd0
[ 167.058581] process_one_work+0x1dc/0x4c0
[ 167.058618] worker_thread+0x54/0x410
[ 167.058650] kthread+0x188/0x1b0
[ 167.058672] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

The function tegra_xusb_padctl_get_usb3_companion eventually calls
tegra_xusb_find_port and this in turn calls kasprintf which might sleep
and so cannot be called from an ato…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-53475 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.178, 5.15.107, 6.1.24, 6.2.11 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-53475" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-53475 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.10.178, 5.15.107, 6.1.24, 6.2.11 — 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 5.10.178, 5.15.107, 6.1.24, 6.2.11.

🛡️ 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 5.10.178, 5.15.107, 6.1.24, 6.2.11
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.178, 5.15.107, 6.1.24, 6.2.11 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":"5.7.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.178"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.107"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.24"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.2.11"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53475 linux Fixed in: 5.10.178-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53475 linux-hwe-edge