Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53812)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53812). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.1.28, 6.2.15, 6.3.2 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

media: mediatek: vcodec: fix decoder disable pm crash

Can't call pm_runtime_disable when the architecture support sub device for
'dev->pm.dev' is NUll, or will get below crash log.

[ 10.771551] pc : _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x4c/0xa0
[ 10.771556] lr : __pm_runtime_disable+0x30/0x130
[ 10.771558] sp : ffffffc01e4cb800
[ 10.771559] x29: ffffffc01e4cb800 x28: ffffffdf082108a8
[ 10.771563] x27: ffffffc01e4cbd70 x26: ffffff8605df55f0
[ 10.771567] x25: 0000000000000002 x24: 0000000000000002
[ 10.771570] x23: ffffff85c0dc9c00 x22: 0000000000000001
[ 10.771573] x21: 0000000000000001 x20: 0000000000000000
[ 10.771577] x19: 00000000000000f4 x18: ffffffdf2e9fbe18
[ 10.771580] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffffffdf2df13c74
[ 10.771583] x15: 00000000000002ea x14: 0000000000000058
[ 10.771587] x13: ffffffdf2de1b62c x12: ffffffdf2e9e30e4
[ 10.771590] x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000001
[ 10.771593] x9 : 0000000000000000 x8 : 00000000000000f4
[ 10.771596] x7 : 6bff6264632c6264 x6 : 0000000000008000
[ 10.771600] x5 : 0080000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000001
[ 10.771603] x3 : 0000000000000008 x2 : 0000000000000001
[ 10.771608] x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 00000000000000f4
[ 10.771613] Call trace:
[ 10.771617] _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x4c/0xa0
[ 10.771620] __pm_runtime_disable+0x30/0x130
[ 10.771657] mtk_vcodec_probe+0x69c/0x728 [mtk_vcodec_dec 800cc929d6631f79f9b273254c8db94d0d3500dc]
[…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-53812 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.28, 6.2.15, 6.3.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-53812" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-53812 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.1.28, 6.2.15, 6.3.2 — 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 6.1.28, 6.2.15, 6.3.2.

🛡️ 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 6.1.28, 6.2.15, 6.3.2
```
ステージング環境で 6.1.28, 6.2.15, 6.3.2 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":"5.18.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.28"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.2.15"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.3.0"},{"fixed":"6.3.2"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53812 linux Fixed in: 6.1.37-1