Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53497)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53497). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.2.15, 6.3.2 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

media: vsp1: Replace vb2_is_streaming() with vb2_start_streaming_called()

The vsp1 driver uses the vb2_is_streaming() function in its .buf_queue()
handler to check if the .start_streaming() operation has been called,
and decide whether to just add the buffer to an internal queue, or also
trigger a hardware run. vb2_is_streaming() relies on the vb2_queue
structure's streaming field, which used to be set only after calling the
.start_streaming() operation.

Commit a10b21532574 ("media: vb2: add (un)prepare_streaming queue ops")
changed this, setting the .streaming field in vb2_core_streamon() before
enqueuing buffers to the driver and calling .start_streaming(). This
broke the vsp1 driver which now believes that .start_streaming() has
been called when it hasn't, leading to a crash:

[ 881.058705] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000020
[ 881.067495] Mem abort info:
[ 881.070290] ESR = 0x0000000096000006
[ 881.074042] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[ 881.079358] SET = 0, FnV = 0
[ 881.082414] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[ 881.085558] FSC = 0x06: level 2 translation fault
[ 881.090439] Data abort info:
[ 881.093320] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000006
[ 881.097157] CM = 0, WnR = 0
[ 881.100126] user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=000000004fa51000
[ 881.106573] [0000000000000020] pgd=080000004f36e003, p4d=080000004f36e003, pud=080000004f7ec003,…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-53497 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.2.15, 6.3.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-53497" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-53497 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.2.15, 6.3.2 — 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 6.2.15, 6.3.2.

🛡️ 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 6.2.15, 6.3.2
```
ステージング環境で 6.2.15, 6.3.2 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":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.2.15"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.3.0"},{"fixed":"6.3.2"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53497 linux Fixed in: 6.3.7-1