Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53831)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-53831). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 4.14.326, 4.19.295, 5.4.257, 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: read sk->sk_family once in sk_mc_loop()

syzbot is playing with IPV6_ADDRFORM quite a lot these days,
and managed to hit the WARN_ON_ONCE(1) in sk_mc_loop()

We have many more similar issues to fix.

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1593 at net/core/sock.c:782 sk_mc_loop+0x165/0x260
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 1593 Comm: kworker/1:3 Not tainted 6.1.40-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/26/2023
Workqueue: events_power_efficient gc_worker
RIP: 0010:sk_mc_loop+0x165/0x260 net/core/sock.c:782
Code: 34 1b fd 49 81 c7 18 05 00 00 4c 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 20 00 74 08 4c 89 ff e8 25 36 6d fd 4d 8b 37 eb 13 e8 db 33 1b fd <0f> 0b b3 01 eb 34 e8 d0 33 1b fd 45 31 f6 49 83 c6 38 4c 89 f0 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000388530 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffffffff846d9b55 RBX: 0000000000000011 RCX: ffff88814f884980
RDX: 0000000000000102 RSI: ffffffff87ae5160 RDI: 0000000000000011
RBP: ffffc90000388550 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: ffffffff846d9a65
R10: 0000000000000002 R11: ffff88814f884980 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff88810dbee000 R14: 0000000000000010 R15: ffff888150084000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881f6b00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000020000180 CR3: 000000014ee5b000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-53831 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 4.14.326, 4.19.295, 5.4.257, 5.10.195, 5.15.132, 6.1.54, 6.5.4 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-53831" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-53831 (Kernel)
Patched: 4.14.326, 4.19.295, 5.4.257, 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 4.14.326, 4.19.295, 5.4.257, 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 4.14.326, 4.19.295, 5.4.257, 5.10.195, 5.15.132, 6.1.54, 6.5.4
```
ステージング環境で 4.14.326, 4.19.295, 5.4.257, 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":"2.6.33"},{"fixed":"4.14.326"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.15.0"},{"fixed":"4.19.295"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.20.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.257"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"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-2023-53831 linux Fixed in: 5.10.197-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53831 linux