Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53811)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53811). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 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:

RDMA/irdma: Cap MSIX used to online CPUs + 1

The irdma driver can use a maximum number of msix vectors equal
to num_online_cpus() + 1 and the kernel warning stack below is shown
if that number is exceeded.

The kernel throws a warning as the driver tries to update the affinity
hint with a CPU mask greater than the max CPU IDs. Fix this by capping
the MSIX vectors to num_online_cpus() + 1.

WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 23655 at include/linux/cpumask.h:106 irdma_cfg_ceq_vector+0x34c/0x3f0 [irdma]
RIP: 0010:irdma_cfg_ceq_vector+0x34c/0x3f0 [irdma]
Call Trace:
irdma_rt_init_hw+0xa62/0x1290 [irdma]
? irdma_alloc_local_mac_entry+0x1a0/0x1a0 [irdma]
? __is_kernel_percpu_address+0x63/0x310
? rcu_read_lock_held_common+0xe/0xb0
? irdma_lan_unregister_qset+0x280/0x280 [irdma]
? irdma_request_reset+0x80/0x80 [irdma]
? ice_get_qos_params+0x84/0x390 [ice]
irdma_probe+0xa40/0xfc0 [irdma]
? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0xd0/0xd0
? irdma_remove+0x140/0x140 [irdma]
? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x62/0xe0
? down_write+0x187/0x3d0
? auxiliary_match_id+0xf0/0x1a0
? irdma_remove+0x140/0x140 [irdma]
auxiliary_bus_probe+0xa6/0x100
__driver_probe_device+0x4a4/0xd50
? __device_attach_driver+0x2c0/0x2c0
driver_probe_device+0x4a/0x110
__driver_attach+0x1aa/0x350
bus_for_each_dev+0x11d/0x1b0
? subsys_dev_iter_init+0xe0/0xe0
bus_add_driver+0x3b1/0x610
driver_register+0x18e/0x410
? 0xffffffffc0b88000
irdma_init_module+0x50/0xaa…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-53811 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.99, 6.1.16, 6.2.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-53811" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-53811 (Kernel)
Patched: 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 5.15.99, 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 5.15.99, 6.1.16, 6.2.3
```
ステージング環境で 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":"5.14.0"},{"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-2023-53811 linux Fixed in: 6.1.20-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53811 linux-hwe-edge