Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-54160)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-54160). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 4.19.284, 5.4.244, 5.10.181, 5.15.113, 6.1.30, 6.3.4 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

firmware: arm_sdei: Fix sleep from invalid context BUG

Running a preempt-rt (v6.2-rc3-rt1) based kernel on an Ampere Altra
triggers:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:46
in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 128, non_block: 0, pid: 24, name: cpuhp/0
preempt_count: 0, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
3 locks held by cpuhp/0/24:
#0: ffffda30217c70d0 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}, at: cpuhp_thread_fun+0x5c/0x248
#1: ffffda30217c7120 (cpuhp_state-up){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: cpuhp_thread_fun+0x5c/0x248
#2: ffffda3021c711f0 (sdei_list_lock){....}-{3:3}, at: sdei_cpuhp_up+0x3c/0x130
irq event stamp: 36
hardirqs last enabled at (35): [] finish_task_switch+0xb4/0x2b0
hardirqs last disabled at (36): [] cpuhp_thread_fun+0x21c/0x248
softirqs last enabled at (0): [] copy_process+0x63c/0x1ac0
softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
CPU: 0 PID: 24 Comm: cpuhp/0 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc3-rt5-[...]
Hardware name: WIWYNN Mt.Jade Server [...]
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0x114/0x120
show_stack+0x20/0x70
dump_stack_lvl+0x9c/0xd8
dump_stack+0x18/0x34
__might_resched+0x188/0x228
rt_spin_lock+0x70/0x120
sdei_cpuhp_up+0x3c/0x130
cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x250/0xf08
cpuhp_thread_fun+0x120/0x248
smpboot_thread_fn+0x280/0x320
kthread+0x130/0x140
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

sdei_cpuhp_up() is ca…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-54160 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 4.19.284, 5.4.244, 5.10.181, 5.15.113, 6.1.30, 6.3.4 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-54160" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-54160 (Kernel)
Patched: 4.19.284, 5.4.244, 5.10.181, 5.15.113, 6.1.30, 6.3.4 — 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 4.19.284, 5.4.244, 5.10.181, 5.15.113, 6.1.30, 6.3.4.

🛡️ 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 4.19.284, 5.4.244, 5.10.181, 5.15.113, 6.1.30, 6.3.4
```
ステージング環境で 4.19.284, 5.4.244, 5.10.181, 5.15.113, 6.1.30, 6.3.4 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":"4.16.0"},{"fixed":"4.19.284"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.20.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.244"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.181"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.113"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.30"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.3.4"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54160 linux Fixed in: 5.10.191-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54160 linux