Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53712)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53712). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.133, 6.1.55, 6.5.5 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

ARM: 9317/1: kexec: Make smp stop calls asynchronous

If a panic is triggered by a hrtimer interrupt all online cpus will be
notified and set offline. But as highlighted by commit 19dbdcb8039c
("smp: Warn on function calls from softirq context") this call should
not be made synchronous with disabled interrupts:

softdog: Initiating panic
Kernel panic - not syncing: Software Watchdog Timer expired
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/smp.c:753 smp_call_function_many_cond
unwind_backtrace:
show_stack
dump_stack_lvl
__warn
warn_slowpath_fmt
smp_call_function_many_cond
smp_call_function
crash_smp_send_stop.part.0
machine_crash_shutdown
__crash_kexec
panic
softdog_fire
__hrtimer_run_queues
hrtimer_interrupt

Make the smp call for machine_crash_nonpanic_core() asynchronous.

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-53712 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.133, 6.1.55, 6.5.5 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-53712" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-53712 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.15.133, 6.1.55, 6.5.5 — 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 5.15.133, 6.1.55, 6.5.5.

🛡️ 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 5.15.133, 6.1.55, 6.5.5
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.133, 6.1.55, 6.5.5 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":"2.6.38"},{"fixed":"5.15.133"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.55"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.5.5"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53712 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53712 linux