Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-54089)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-54089). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.4.16, 6.5.3 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

virtio_pmem: add the missing REQ_OP_WRITE for flush bio

When doing mkfs.xfs on a pmem device, the following warning was

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 384 at block/blk-core.c:751 submit_bio_noacct
Modules linked in:
CPU: 2 PID: 384 Comm: mkfs.xfs Not tainted 6.4.0-rc7+ #154
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
RIP: 0010:submit_bio_noacct+0x340/0x520
......
Call Trace:

? submit_bio_noacct+0xd5/0x520
submit_bio+0x37/0x60
async_pmem_flush+0x79/0xa0
nvdimm_flush+0x17/0x40
pmem_submit_bio+0x370/0x390
__submit_bio+0xbc/0x190
submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x14d/0x370
submit_bio_noacct+0x1ef/0x520
submit_bio+0x55/0x60
submit_bio_wait+0x5a/0xc0
blkdev_issue_flush+0x44/0x60

The root cause is that submit_bio_noacct() needs bio_op() is either
WRITE or ZONE_APPEND for flush bio and async_pmem_flush() doesn't assign
REQ_OP_WRITE when allocating flush bio, so submit_bio_noacct just fail
the flush bio.

Simply fix it by adding the missing REQ_OP_WRITE for flush bio. And we
could fix the flush order issue and do flush optimization later.

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-54089 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.4.16, 6.5.3 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-54089" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-54089 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.4.16, 6.5.3 — 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 6.4.16, 6.5.3.

🛡️ 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 6.4.16, 6.5.3
```
ステージング環境で 6.4.16, 6.5.3 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":"6.3.0"},{"fixed":"6.4.16"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.5.0"},{"fixed":"6.5.3"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54089 linux Fixed in: 6.5.3-1