Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53702)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53702). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.30, 6.3.4 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

s390/crypto: use vector instructions only if available for ChaCha20

Commit 349d03ffd5f6 ("crypto: s390 - add crypto library interface for
ChaCha20") added a library interface to the s390 specific ChaCha20
implementation. However no check was added to verify if the required
facilities are installed before branching into the assembler code.

If compiled into the kernel, this will lead to the following crash,
if vector instructions are not available:

data exception: 0007 ilc:3 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.3.0-rc7+ #11
Hardware name: IBM 3931 A01 704 (KVM/Linux)
Krnl PSW : 0704e00180000000 000000001857277a (chacha20_vx+0x32/0x818)
R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3 CC:2 PM:0 RI:0 EA:3
Krnl GPRS: 0000037f0000000a ffffffffffffff60 000000008184b000 0000000019f5c8e6
0000000000000109 0000037fffb13c58 0000037fffb13c78 0000000019bb1780
0000037fffb13c58 0000000019f5c8e6 000000008184b000 0000000000000109
00000000802d8000 0000000000000109 0000000018571ebc 0000037fffb13718
Krnl Code: 000000001857276a: c07000b1f80b larl %r7,0000000019bb1780
0000000018572770: a708000a lhi %r0,10
#0000000018572774: e78950000c36 vlm %v24,%v25,0(%r5),0
>000000001857277a: e7a060000806 vl %v26,0(%r6),0
0000000018572780: e7bf70004c36 vlm %v27,%v31,0(%r7),…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-53702 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.30, 6.3.4 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-53702" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-53702 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.1.30, 6.3.4 — 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.

❓ 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 6.1.30, 6.3.4.

🛡️ 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 6.1.30, 6.3.4
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.30, 6.3.4 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。
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":"6.1.30"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.3.4"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53702 linux Fixed in: 6.1.37-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53702 linux