Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53671)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53671). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.16, 6.2.3 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

srcu: Delegate work to the boot cpu if using SRCU_SIZE_SMALL

Commit 994f706872e6 ("srcu: Make Tree SRCU able to operate without
snp_node array") assumes that cpu 0 is always online. However, there
really are situations when some other CPU is the boot CPU, for example,
when booting a kdump kernel with the maxcpus=1 boot parameter.

On PowerPC, the kdump kernel can hang as follows:
...
[ 1.740036] systemd[1]: Hostname set to
[ 243.686240] INFO: task systemd:1 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
[ 243.686264] Not tainted 6.1.0-rc1 #1
[ 243.686272] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[ 243.686281] task:systemd state:D stack:0 pid:1 ppid:0 flags:0x00042000
[ 243.686296] Call Trace:
[ 243.686301] [c000000016657640] [c000000016657670] 0xc000000016657670 (unreliable)
[ 243.686317] [c000000016657830] [c00000001001dec0] __switch_to+0x130/0x220
[ 243.686333] [c000000016657890] [c000000010f607b8] __schedule+0x1f8/0x580
[ 243.686347] [c000000016657940] [c000000010f60bb4] schedule+0x74/0x140
[ 243.686361] [c0000000166579b0] [c000000010f699b8] schedule_timeout+0x168/0x1c0
[ 243.686374] [c000000016657a80] [c000000010f61de8] __wait_for_common+0x148/0x360
[ 243.686387] [c000000016657b20] [c000000010176bb0] __flush_work.isra.0+0x1c0/0x3d0
[ 243.686401] [c000000016657bb0] [c0000000105f2768] fsnotify_wait_marks_destroyed+0x28/0x40
[ 243.686415] […

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-53671 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.16, 6.2.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-53671" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-53671 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.1.16, 6.2.3 — 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 6.1.16, 6.2.3.

🛡️ 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 6.1.16, 6.2.3
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.16, 6.2.3 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":"5.19.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.16"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.2.3"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53671 linux Fixed in: 6.1.20-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53671 linux