Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53727)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53727). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.10.195, 5.15.132, 6.1.54, 6.5.4 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

net/sched: fq_pie: avoid stalls in fq_pie_timer()

When setting a high number of flows (limit being 65536),
fq_pie_timer() is currently using too much time as syzbot reported.

Add logic to yield the cpu every 2048 flows (less than 150 usec
on debug kernels).
It should also help by not blocking qdisc fast paths for too long.
Worst case (65536 flows) would need 31 jiffies for a complete scan.

Relevant extract from syzbot report:

rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected expedited stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 0-.... } 2663 jiffies s: 873 root: 0x1/.
rcu: blocking rcu_node structures (internal RCU debug):
Sending NMI from CPU 1 to CPUs 0:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU: 0 PID: 5177 Comm: syz-executor273 Not tainted 6.5.0-syzkaller-00453-g727dbda16b83 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/26/2023
RIP: 0010:check_kcov_mode kernel/kcov.c:173 [inline]
RIP: 0010:write_comp_data+0x21/0x90 kernel/kcov.c:236
Code: 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 65 8b 05 01 b2 7d 7e 49 89 f1 89 c6 49 89 d2 81 e6 00 01 00 00 49 89 f8 65 48 8b 14 25 80 b9 03 00 00 01 ff 00 74 0e 85 f6 74 59 8b 82 04 16 00 00 85 c0 74 4f 8b
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000007bb8 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000101 RBX: ffffc9000dc0d140 RCX: ffffffff885893b0
RDX: ffff88807c075940 RSI: 0000000000000100 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ff…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-53727 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.10.195, 5.15.132, 6.1.54, 6.5.4 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-53727" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-53727 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.10.195, 5.15.132, 6.1.54, 6.5.4 — 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 5.10.195, 5.15.132, 6.1.54, 6.5.4.

🛡️ 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 5.10.195, 5.15.132, 6.1.54, 6.5.4
```
ステージング環境で 5.10.195, 5.15.132, 6.1.54, 6.5.4 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":"5.6.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.195"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.132"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.54"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.5.4"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53727 linux Fixed in: 5.10.197-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53727 linux-hwe-edge