CVE-2023-53135

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53135
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53135.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53135
Downstream
Published
2025-05-02T15:56:08.287Z
Modified
2025-11-28T02:35:40.275164Z
Summary
riscv: Use READ_ONCE_NOCHECK in imprecise unwinding stack mode
Details

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

riscv: Use READONCENOCHECK in imprecise unwinding stack mode

When CONFIGFRAMEPOINTER 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 walkstackframe+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] [<ffffffff80007ba8>] walkstackframe+0x0/0x11a [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80099ecc>] initparamlock+0x26/0x2a [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80007c4a>] walkstackframe+0xa2/0x11a [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80c49c80>] dumpstacklvl+0x22/0x36 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80c3783e>] printreport+0x198/0x4a8 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80099ecc>] initparamlock+0x26/0x2a [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80007c4a>] walkstackframe+0xa2/0x11a [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8015f68a>] kasanreport+0x9a/0xc8 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80007c4a>] walkstackframe+0xa2/0x11a [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80007c4a>] walkstackframe+0xa2/0x11a [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8006e99c>] descmakefinal+0x80/0x84 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8009a04e>] stacktracesave+0x88/0xa6 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80099fc2>] filterirqstacks+0x72/0x76 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8006b95e>] devkmsgread+0x32a/0x32e [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8015ec16>] kasansavestack+0x28/0x52 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8006e998>] descmakefinal+0x7c/0x84 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8009a04a>] stacktracesave+0x84/0xa6 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8015ec52>] kasansettrack+0x12/0x20 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8015f22e>] kasanslaballoc+0x58/0x5e [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8015e7ea>] _kmemcachecreate+0x21e/0x39a [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80e133ac>] createbootcache+0x70/0x9c [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80e17ab2>] kmemcacheinit+0x6c/0x11e [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80e00fd6>] mminit+0xd8/0xfe [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80e011d8>] startkernel+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] stacktracesave+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 READONCENOCHECK when reading the stack in imprecise mode.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53135.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5d8544e2d0075a5f3c9a2cf27152354d54360da1
Fixed
a99a61d9e1bfca2fc37d223a6a185c0eb66aba02
Fixed
3de277af481ab931fab9e295ad8762692920732a
Fixed
3a9418d2c93c1c86ce4d0595112d91c7a8e70c2c
Fixed
324912d6c0c4006711054d389faa2239c1655e1e
Fixed
17fa90ffba20743c946920fbb0afe160d0ead8c9
Fixed
76950340cf03b149412fe0d5f0810e52ac1df8cb

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.15.0
Fixed
5.4.237
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
5.10.175
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.103
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.20
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.2.7