vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2023-53135): linux vulnerability
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
6 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C) | May 2, 2025 | May 8, 2025 | Jun 12, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
riscv: Use READ_ONCE_NOCHECK in imprecise unwinding stack mode
When CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is unset, the stack unwinding function
walk_stackframe randomly reads the stack and then, when KASAN is enabled,
it can lead to the following backtrace:
[ 0.000000] ==================================================================
[ 0.000000] BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in walk_stackframe+0xa6/0x11a
[ 0.000000] Read of size 8 at addr ffffffff81807c40 by task swapper/0
[ 0.000000]
[ 0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.2.0-12919-g24203e6db61f #43
[ 0.000000] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
[ 0.000000] Call Trace:
[ 0.000000] [] walk_stackframe+0x0/0x11a
[ 0.000000] [] init_param_lock+0x26/0x2a
[ 0.000000] [] walk_stackframe+0xa2/0x11a
[ 0.000000] [] dump_stack_lvl+0x22/0x36
[ 0.000000] [] print_report+0x198/0x4a8
[ 0.000000] [] init_param_lock+0x26/0x2a
[ 0.000000] [] walk_stackframe+0xa2/0x11a
[ 0.000000] [] kasan_report+0x9a/0xc8
[ 0.000000] [] walk_stackframe+0xa2/0x11a
[ 0.000000] [] walk_stackframe+0xa2/0x11a
[ 0.000000] [] desc_make_final+0x80/0x84
[ 0.000000] [] stack_trace_save+0x88/0xa6
[ 0.000000] [] filter_irq_stacks+0x72/0x76
[ 0.000000] [] devkmsg_read+0x32a/0x32e
[ 0.000000] [] kasan_save_stack+0x28/0x52
[ 0.000000] [] desc_make_final+0x7c/0x84
[ 0.000000] [] stack_trace_save+0x84/0xa6
[ 0.000000] [] kasan_set_track+0x12/0x20
[ 0.000000] [] __kasan_slab_alloc+0x58/0x5e
[ 0.000000] [] __kmem_cache_create+0x21e/0x39a
[ 0.000000] [] create_boot_cache+0x70/0x9c
[ 0.000000] [] kmem_cache_init+0x6c/0x11e
[ 0.000000] [] mm_init+0xd8/0xfe
[ 0.000000] [] start_kernel+0x190/0x3ca
[ 0.000000]
[ 0.000000] The buggy address belongs to stack of task swapper/0
[ 0.000000] and is located at offset 0 in frame:
[ 0.000000] stack_trace_save+0x0/0xa6
[ 0.000000]
[ 0.000000] This frame has 1 object:
[ 0.000000] [32, 56) 'c'
[ 0.000000]
[ 0.000000] The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
[ 0.000000] page:(____ptrval____) refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x81a07
[ 0.000000] flags: 0x1000(reserved|zone=0)
[ 0.000000] raw: 0000000000001000 ff600003f1e3d150 ff600003f1e3d150 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff
[ 0.000000] page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
[ 0.000000]
[ 0.000000] Memory state around the buggy address:
[ 0.000000] ffffffff81807b00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 0.000000] ffffffff81807b80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 0.000000] >ffffffff81807c00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 00 00 00 f3
[ 0.000000] ^
[ 0.000000] ffffffff81807c80: f3 f3 f3 f3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 0.000000] ffffffff81807d00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 0.000000] ==================================================================
Fix that by using READ_ONCE_NOCHECK when reading the stack in imprecise
mode.
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2023-53135
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2023-53135
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/76950340cf03b149412fe0d5f0810e52ac1df8cb
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17fa90ffba20743c946920fbb0afe160d0ead8c9
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/324912d6c0c4006711054d389faa2239c1655e1e
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a9418d2c93c1c86ce4d0595112d91c7a8e70c2c
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3de277af481ab931fab9e295ad8762692920732a
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/76950340cf03b149412fe0d5f0810e52ac1df8cb
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a99a61d9e1bfca2fc37d223a6a185c0eb66aba02
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53135

Explore Exposure Command
Confidently identify and prioritize exposures from endpoint to cloud with full attack surface visibility and threat-aware risk context.