Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53563)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53563). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.53, 6.4.16, 6.5.3 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

cpufreq: amd-pstate-ut: Fix kernel panic when loading the driver

After loading the amd-pstate-ut driver, amd_pstate_ut_check_perf()
and amd_pstate_ut_check_freq() use cpufreq_cpu_get() to get the policy
of the CPU and mark it as busy.

In these functions, cpufreq_cpu_put() should be used to release the
policy, but it is not, so any other entity trying to access the policy
is blocked indefinitely.

One such scenario is when amd_pstate mode is changed, leading to the
following splat:

[ 1332.103727] INFO: task bash:2929 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[ 1332.110001] Not tainted 6.5.0-rc2-amd-pstate-ut #5
[ 1332.115315] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[ 1332.123140] task:bash state:D stack:0 pid:2929 ppid:2873 flags:0x00004006
[ 1332.123143] Call Trace:
[ 1332.123145]
[ 1332.123148] __schedule+0x3c1/0x16a0
[ 1332.123154] ? _raw_read_lock_irqsave+0x2d/0x70
[ 1332.123157] schedule+0x6f/0x110
[ 1332.123160] schedule_timeout+0x14f/0x160
[ 1332.123162] ? preempt_count_add+0x86/0xd0
[ 1332.123165] __wait_for_common+0x92/0x190
[ 1332.123168] ? _pfx_schedule_timeout+0x10/0x10
[ 1332.123170] wait_for_completion+0x28/0x30
[ 1332.123173] cpufreq_policy_put_kobj+0x4d/0x90
[ 1332.123177] cpufreq_policy_free+0x157/0x1d0
[ 1332.123178] ? preempt_count_add+0x58/0xd0
[ 1332.123180] cpufreq_remove_dev+0xb6/0x100
[ 1332.123182] subsys_interface…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-53563 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.53, 6.4.16, 6.5.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-53563" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-53563 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.1.53, 6.4.16, 6.5.3 — 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 6.1.53, 6.4.16, 6.5.3.

🛡️ 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 6.1.53, 6.4.16, 6.5.3
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.53, 6.4.16, 6.5.3 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":"6.1.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.53"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.4.16"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.5.0"},{"fixed":"6.5.3"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53563 linux Fixed in: 6.1.55-1