Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53550)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53550). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.4.11 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

cpufreq: amd-pstate: fix global sysfs attribute type

In commit 3666062b87ec ("cpufreq: amd-pstate: move to use bus_get_dev_root()")
the "amd_pstate" attributes where moved from a dedicated kobject to the
cpu root kobject.

While the dedicated kobject expects to contain kobj_attributes the root
kobject needs device_attributes.

As the changed arguments are not used by the callbacks it works most of
the time.
However CFI will detect this issue:

[ 4947.849350] CFI failure at dev_attr_show+0x24/0x60 (target: show_status+0x0/0x70; expected type: 0x8651b1de)
...
[ 4947.849409] Call Trace:
[ 4947.849410]
[ 4947.849411] ? __warn+0xcf/0x1c0
[ 4947.849414] ? dev_attr_show+0x24/0x60
[ 4947.849415] ? report_cfi_failure+0x4e/0x60
[ 4947.849417] ? handle_cfi_failure+0x14c/0x1d0
[ 4947.849419] ? __cfi_show_status+0x10/0x10
[ 4947.849420] ? handle_bug+0x4f/0x90
[ 4947.849421] ? exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x60
[ 4947.849422] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
[ 4947.849424] ? __cfi_show_status+0x10/0x10
[ 4947.849425] ? dev_attr_show+0x24/0x60
[ 4947.849426] sysfs_kf_seq_show+0xa6/0x110
[ 4947.849433] seq_read_iter+0x16c/0x4b0
[ 4947.849436] vfs_read+0x272/0x2d0
[ 4947.849438] ksys_read+0x72/0xe0
[ 4947.849439] do_syscall_64+0x76/0xb0
[ 4947.849440] ? do_user_addr_fault+0x252/0x650
[ 4947.849442] ? exc_page_fault+0x7a/0x1b0
[ 4947.849443] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-53550 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.4.11 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-53550" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-53550 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.4.11 — 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 6.4.11.

🛡️ 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 6.4.11
```
ステージング環境で 6.4.11 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":"6.4.0"},{"fixed":"6.4.11"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53550 linux Fixed in: 6.4.11-1