Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53578)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53578). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.178, 5.15.108, 6.1.25, 6.2.12 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

net: qrtr: Fix an uninit variable access bug in qrtr_tx_resume()

Syzbot reported a bug as following:

=====================================================
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in qrtr_tx_resume+0x185/0x1f0 net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:230
qrtr_tx_resume+0x185/0x1f0 net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:230
qrtr_endpoint_post+0xf85/0x11b0 net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:519
qrtr_tun_write_iter+0x270/0x400 net/qrtr/tun.c:108
call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2189 [inline]
aio_write+0x63a/0x950 fs/aio.c:1600
io_submit_one+0x1d1c/0x3bf0 fs/aio.c:2019
__do_sys_io_submit fs/aio.c:2078 [inline]
__se_sys_io_submit+0x293/0x770 fs/aio.c:2048
__x64_sys_io_submit+0x92/0xd0 fs/aio.c:2048
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Uninit was created at:
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:766 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3452 [inline]
__kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x71f/0xce0 mm/slub.c:3491
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:967 [inline]
__kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x114/0x3b0 mm/slab_common.c:988
kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:492 [inline]
__alloc_skb+0x3af/0x8f0 net/core/skbuff.c:565
_netdev_alloc_skb+0x120/0x7d0 net/core/skbuff.c:630
qrtr_endpoint_post+0xbd/0x11b0 net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:446
qrtr_tun_write_iter+0x270/0x400 net/qrtr/tun.c:108
call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2189 [inline]
aio_write+0x63a/0x950 fs/aio.c:1600
io_submit…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-53578 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.178, 5.15.108, 6.1.25, 6.2.12 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-53578" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-53578 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.10.178, 5.15.108, 6.1.25, 6.2.12 — 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, 5.15.108, 6.1.25, 6.2.12.

🛡️ 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, 5.15.108, 6.1.25, 6.2.12
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.178, 5.15.108, 6.1.25, 6.2.12 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":"5.6.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.178"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.108"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.25"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.2.12"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53578 linux Fixed in: 5.10.178-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53578 linux-hwe-edge