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CVE-2023-52978

MEDIUM 5.5

riscv: kprobe: Fixup kernel panic when probing an illegal position

CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv: kprobe: Fixup kernel panic when probing an illegal position The kernel would panic when probed for an illegal position. eg: (CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_C=n) echo 'p:hello kernel_clone+0x16 a0=%a0' >> kprobe_events echo 1 > events/kprobes/hello/enable cat trace Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: __do_sys_newfstatat+0xb8/0xb8 CPU: 0 PID: 111 Comm: sh Not tainted 6.2.0-rc1-00027-g2d398fe49a4d #490 Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT) Call Trace: [<ffffffff80007268>] dump_backtrace+0x38/0x48 [<ffffffff80c5e83c>] show_stack+0x50/0x68 [<ffffffff80c6da28>] dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x84 [<ffffffff80c6da6c>] dump_stack+0x20/0x30 [<ffffffff80c5ecf4>] panic+0x160/0x374 [<ffffffff80c6db94>] generic_handle_arch_irq+0x0/0xa8 [<ffffffff802deeb0>] sys_newstat+0x0/0x30 [<ffffffff800158c0>] sys_clone+0x20/0x30 [<ffffffff800039e8>] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x4 ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: __do_sys_newfstatat+0xb8/0xb8 ]--- That is because the kprobe's ebreak instruction broke the kernel's original code. The user should guarantee the correction of the probe position, but it couldn't make the kernel panic. This patch adds arch_check_kprobe in arch_prepare_kprobe to prevent an illegal position (Such as the middle of an instruction).

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Product linux
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Published Mar 27, 2025
Last Updated May 11, 2026
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Affected Versions

Linux / Linux
c22b0bcb1dd024cb9caad9230e3a387d8b061df5 < 04a73558209554da17f46490ec4faaaf1b2bab68 c22b0bcb1dd024cb9caad9230e3a387d8b061df5 < 12316538b1d193064109ce1a28fc9bacd43950de c22b0bcb1dd024cb9caad9230e3a387d8b061df5 < 87f48c7ccc73afc78630530d9af51f458f58cab8
Linux / Linux
5.12

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04a73558209554da17f46490ec4faaaf1b2bab68 git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12316538b1d193064109ce1a28fc9bacd43950de git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87f48c7ccc73afc78630530d9af51f458f58cab8