Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53678)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53678). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.18, 6.2.5 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

drm/i915: Fix system suspend without fbdev being initialized

If fbdev is not initialized for some reason - in practice on platforms
without display - suspending fbdev should be skipped during system
suspend, fix this up. While at it add an assert that suspending fbdev
only happens with the display present.

This fixes the following:

[ 91.227923] PM: suspend entry (s2idle)
[ 91.254598] Filesystems sync: 0.025 seconds
[ 91.270518] Freezing user space processes
[ 91.272266] Freezing user space processes completed (elapsed 0.001 seconds)
[ 91.272686] OOM killer disabled.
[ 91.272872] Freezing remaining freezable tasks
[ 91.274295] Freezing remaining freezable tasks completed (elapsed 0.001 seconds)
[ 91.659622] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000001c8
[ 91.659981] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
[ 91.660252] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
[ 91.660511] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 91.660647] Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[ 91.660875] CPU: 4 PID: 917 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.2.0-rc7+ #54
[ 91.661185] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS edk2-20221117gitfff6d81270b5-9.fc37 unknown
[ 91.661680] RIP: 0010:mutex_lock+0x19/0x30
[ 91.661914] Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 53 48 89 fb e8 62 d3 ff ff 31 c0 65 48 8b 14 25 00 15 03 00 48 0f b1 13 75 06 5b c3 cc cc cc cc 48 89 df 5b eb b4 0f 1f…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-53678 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.18, 6.2.5 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-53678" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-53678 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.1.18, 6.2.5 — 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 6.1.18, 6.2.5.

🛡️ 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 6.1.18, 6.2.5
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.18, 6.2.5 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":"6.1.18"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.2.5"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53678 linux Fixed in: 6.1.20-1