Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-54253)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2023-54253). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 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:

btrfs: set page extent mapped after read_folio in relocate_one_page

One of the CI runs triggered the following panic

assertion failed: PagePrivate(page) && page->private, in fs/btrfs/subpage.c:229
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/subpage.c:229!
Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP
CPU: 0 PID: 923660 Comm: btrfs Not tainted 6.5.0-rc3+ #1
pstate: 61400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : btrfs_subpage_assert+0xbc/0xf0
lr : btrfs_subpage_assert+0xbc/0xf0
sp : ffff800093213720
x29: ffff800093213720 x28: ffff8000932138b4 x27: 000000000c280000
x26: 00000001b5d00000 x25: 000000000c281000 x24: 000000000c281fff
x23: 0000000000001000 x22: 0000000000000000 x21: ffffff42b95bf880
x20: ffff42b9528e0000 x19: 0000000000001000 x18: ffffffffffffffff
x17: 667274622f736620 x16: 6e69202c65746176 x15: 0000000000000028
x14: 0000000000000003 x13: 00000000002672d7 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: ffffcd3f0ccd9204 x10: ffffcd3f0554ae50 x9 : ffffcd3f0379528c
x8 : ffff800093213428 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : ffffcd3f091771e8
x5 : ffff42b97f333948 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000
x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : ffff42b9556cde80 x0 : 000000000000004f
Call trace:
btrfs_subpage_assert+0xbc/0xf0
btrfs_subpage_set_dirty+0x38/0xa0
btrfs_page_set_dirty+0x58/0x88
relocate_one_page+0x204/0x5f0
relocate_file_extent_cluster+0x11c/…

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

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-54253 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.1.54, 6.5.4 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2023-54253" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2023-54253 (Kernel)
Patched: 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 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 6.1.54, 6.5.4
```
ステージング環境で 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":"5.12.0"},{"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-2023-54253 linux Fixed in: 6.1.55-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54253 linux