Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53693)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53693). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.190, 5.15.124, 6.1.43, 6.4.8 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

USB: gadget: Fix the memory leak in raw_gadget driver

Currently, increasing raw_dev->count happens before invoke the
raw_queue_event(), if the raw_queue_event() return error, invoke
raw_release() will not trigger the dev_free() to be called.

[ 268.905865][ T5067] raw-gadget.0 gadget.0: failed to queue event
[ 268.912053][ T5067] udc dummy_udc.0: failed to start USB Raw Gadget: -12
[ 268.918885][ T5067] raw-gadget.0: probe of gadget.0 failed with error -12
[ 268.925956][ T5067] UDC core: USB Raw Gadget: couldn't find an available UDC or it's busy
[ 268.934657][ T5067] misc raw-gadget: fail, usb_gadget_register_driver returned -16

BUG: memory leak

[] kmalloc_trace+0x24/0x90 mm/slab_common.c:1076
[] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:582 [inline]
[] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:703 [inline]
[] dev_new drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/raw_gadget.c:191 [inline]
[] raw_open+0x45/0x110 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/raw_gadget.c:385
[] misc_open+0x1a9/0x1f0 drivers/char/misc.c:165

[] kmalloc_trace+0x24/0x90 mm/slab_common.c:1076
[] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:582 [inline]
[] raw_ioctl_init+0xdf/0x410 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/raw_gadget.c:460
[] raw_ioctl+0x5f9/0x1120 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/raw_gadget.c:1250
[] vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]

[] kmalloc_trace+0x24/0x90 mm/slab_common.c:1076
[] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:582 [inline]
[] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:703 [inline]
[] dummy_alloc_request+0x5a/0xe0 drive…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-53693 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.190, 5.15.124, 6.1.43, 6.4.8 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-53693" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-53693 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.10.190, 5.15.124, 6.1.43, 6.4.8 — 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 5.10.190, 5.15.124, 6.1.43, 6.4.8.

🛡️ 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 5.10.190, 5.15.124, 6.1.43, 6.4.8
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.190, 5.15.124, 6.1.43, 6.4.8 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":"5.7.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.190"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.124"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.43"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.4.8"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53693 linux Fixed in: 5.10.191-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53693 linux