vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2023-52992): linux vulnerability
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Mar 27, 2025 | Apr 1, 2025 | Jun 12, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Skip task with pid=1 in send_signal_common()
The following kernel panic can be triggered when a task with pid=1 attaches
a prog that attempts to send killing signal to itself, also see [1] for more
details:
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b
CPU: 3 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 6.1.0-09652-g59fe41b5255f #148
Call Trace:
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x100/0x178 lib/dump_stack.c:106
panic+0x2c4/0x60f kernel/panic.c:275
do_exit.cold+0x63/0xe4 kernel/exit.c:789
do_group_exit+0xd4/0x2a0 kernel/exit.c:950
get_signal+0x2460/0x2600 kernel/signal.c:2858
arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x78/0x5d0 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:306
exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:168 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x15f/0x250 kernel/entry/common.c:203
__syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:285 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1d/0x50 kernel/entry/common.c:296
do_syscall_64+0x44/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
So skip task with pid=1 in bpf_send_signal_common() to avoid the panic.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20221222043507.33037-1-sunhao.th@gmail.com
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2023-52992
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2023-52992
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/a3d81bc1eaef48e34dd0b9b48eefed9e02a06451
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dfef503133565fa0bcf3268d8eeb5b181191a65
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1283a01b6e19d05f7ed49584ea653947245cd41e
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4923160393b06a34759a11b17930d71e06f396f2
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1c0263f1eb4deee132e11e52ee6982435460d81
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3d81bc1eaef48e34dd0b9b48eefed9e02a06451
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52992

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