Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53656)
Summary
Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53656). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.39, 6.3.13, 6.4.4 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drivers/perf: hisi: Don't migrate perf to the CPU going to teardown
The driver needs to migrate the perf context if the current using CPU going
to teardown. By the time calling the cpuhp::teardown() callback the
cpu_online_mask() hasn't updated yet and still includes the CPU going to
teardown. In current driver's implementation we may migrate the context
to the teardown CPU and leads to the below calltrace:
...
[ 368.104662][ T932] task:cpuhp/0 state:D stack: 0 pid: 15 ppid: 2 flags:0x00000008
[ 368.113699][ T932] Call trace:
[ 368.116834][ T932] __switch_to+0x7c/0xbc
[ 368.120924][ T932] __schedule+0x338/0x6f0
[ 368.125098][ T932] schedule+0x50/0xe0
[ 368.128926][ T932] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x18/0x24
[ 368.134229][ T932] __mutex_lock.constprop.0+0x1d4/0x5dc
[ 368.139617][ T932] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x1c/0x30
[ 368.144573][ T932] mutex_lock+0x50/0x60
[ 368.148579][ T932] perf_pmu_migrate_context+0x84/0x2b0
[ 368.153884][ T932] hisi_pcie_pmu_offline_cpu+0x90/0xe0 [hisi_pcie_pmu]
[ 368.160579][ T932] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x2a0/0x650
[ 368.165707][ T932] cpuhp_thread_fun+0xe4/0x190
[ 368.170316][ T932] smpboot_thread_fn+0x15c/0x1a0
[ 368.175099][ T932] kthread+0x108/0x13c
[ 368.179012][ T932] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
...
Use function cpumask_any_but() to find one correct active cpu to fixes
this issue.
Auto-generated summary
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-53656 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.39, 6.3.13, 6.4.4 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-53656" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2023-53656 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.1.39, 6.3.13, 6.4.4 — 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.
A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Kernel.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Kernel.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 6.1.39, 6.3.13, 6.4.4.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
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
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1Identify 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。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade Kernel to 6.1.39, 6.3.13, 6.4.4ステージング環境で 6.1.39, 6.3.13, 6.4.4 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。
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3Post-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
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53656 linux Fixed in: 6.1.52-1
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org