Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53700)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53700). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.173, 5.15.99, 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:

media: max9286: Fix memleak in max9286_v4l2_register()

There is a kmemleak when testing the media/i2c/max9286.c with bpf mock
device:

kmemleak: 5 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)

unreferenced object 0xffff88810defc400 (size 256):
comm "python3", pid 278, jiffies 4294737563 (age 31.978s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
28 06 a7 0a 81 88 ff ff 00 fe 22 12 81 88 ff ff (.........".....
10 c4 ef 0d 81 88 ff ff 10 c4 ef 0d 81 88 ff ff ................
backtrace:
[<00000000191de6a7>] __kmalloc_node+0x44/0x1b0
[<000000002f4912b7>] kvmalloc_node+0x34/0x180
[<0000000057dc4cae>] v4l2_ctrl_new+0x325/0x10f0 [videodev]
[<0000000026030272>] v4l2_ctrl_new_std+0x16f/0x210 [videodev]
[<00000000f0d9ea2f>] max9286_probe+0x76e/0xbff [max9286]
[<00000000ea8f6455>] i2c_device_probe+0x28d/0x680
[<0000000087529af3>] really_probe+0x17c/0x3f0
[<00000000b08be526>] __driver_probe_device+0xe3/0x170
[<000000004382edea>] driver_probe_device+0x49/0x120
[<000000007bde528a>] __device_attach_driver+0xf7/0x150
[<000000009f9c6ab4>] bus_for_each_drv+0x114/0x180
[<00000000c8aaf588>] __device_attach+0x1e5/0x2d0
[<0000000041cc06b9>] bus_probe_device+0x126/0x140
[<000000002309860d>] device_add+0x810/0x1130
[<000000002827bf98>] i2c_new_client_device+0x359/0x4f0
[<00000000593bdc85>] of_i2c_register_device+0xf1/0x110

max9286_v4l2_register() calls v4…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-53700 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.173, 5.15.99, 6.1.16, 6.2.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-53700" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-53700 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.10.173, 5.15.99, 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 5.10.173, 5.15.99, 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 5.10.173, 5.15.99, 6.1.16, 6.2.3
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.173, 5.15.99, 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":"5.9.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.173"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.99"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"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-2023-53700 linux Fixed in: 5.10.178-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53700 linux-hwe-edge