Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-54144)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-54144). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.0.19, 6.1.5 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

drm/amdkfd: Fix kernel warning during topology setup

This patch fixes the following kernel warning seen during
driver load by correctly initializing the p2plink attr before
creating the sysfs file:

[ +0.002865] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ +0.002327] kobject: '(null)' (0000000056260cfb): is not initialized, yet kobject_put() is being called.
[ +0.004780] WARNING: CPU: 32 PID: 1006 at lib/kobject.c:718 kobject_put+0xaa/0x1c0
[ +0.001361] Call Trace:
[ +0.001234]
[ +0.001067] kfd_remove_sysfs_node_entry+0x24a/0x2d0 [amdgpu]
[ +0.003147] kfd_topology_update_sysfs+0x3d/0x750 [amdgpu]
[ +0.002890] kfd_topology_add_device+0xbd7/0xc70 [amdgpu]
[ +0.002844] ? lock_release+0x13c/0x2e0
[ +0.001936] ? smu_cmn_send_smc_msg_with_param+0x1e8/0x2d0 [amdgpu]
[ +0.003313] ? amdgpu_dpm_get_mclk+0x54/0x60 [amdgpu]
[ +0.002703] kgd2kfd_device_init.cold+0x39f/0x4ed [amdgpu]
[ +0.002930] amdgpu_amdkfd_device_init+0x13d/0x1f0 [amdgpu]
[ +0.002944] amdgpu_device_init.cold+0x1464/0x17b4 [amdgpu]
[ +0.002970] ? pci_bus_read_config_word+0x43/0x80
[ +0.002380] amdgpu_driver_load_kms+0x15/0x100 [amdgpu]
[ +0.002744] amdgpu_pci_probe+0x147/0x370 [amdgpu]
[ +0.002522] local_pci_probe+0x40/0x80
[ +0.001896] work_for_cpu_fn+0x10/0x20
[ +0.001892] process_one_work+0x26e/0x5a0
[ +0.002029] worker_thread+0x1fd/0x3e0
[ +0.001890] ? process_one_work+0x5a0/0x5a0
[ +0.002115] kthread+0xea/0x11…

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

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-54144 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.0.19, 6.1.5 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-54144" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-54144 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.0.19, 6.1.5 — 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 6.0.19, 6.1.5.

🛡️ 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 6.0.19, 6.1.5
```
ステージング環境で 6.0.19, 6.1.5 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":"6.0.0"},{"fixed":"6.0.19"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.1.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.5"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54144 linux Fixed in: 6.1.7-1