vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2023-53135): linux vulnerability

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 2, 2025
Added
May 8, 2025
Modified
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)

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