CVE-2023-53694

Linux Kernel 5.12-6.2.3 - Denial of Service via RISCV ftrace Preemption Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv: ftrace: Fixup panic by disabling preemption In RISCV, we must use an AUIPC + JALR pair to encode an immediate, forming a jump that jumps to an address over 4K. This may cause errors if we want to enable kernel preemption and remove dependency from patching code with stop_machine(). For example, if a task was switched out on auipc. And, if we changed the ftrace function before it was switched back, then it would jump to an address that has updated 11:0 bits mixing with previous XLEN:12 part. p: patched area performed by dynamic ftrace ftrace_prologue: p| REG_S ra, -SZREG(sp) p| auipc ra, 0x? ------------> preempted ... change ftrace function ... p| jalr -?(ra) <------------- switched back p| REG_L ra, -SZREG(sp) func: xxx ret

Scores

EPSS 0.0020
EPSS Percentile 9.8%

Details

Status published
Products (10)
linux/Kernel 5.12.0 - 6.1.23linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.2.3linux
Linux/Linux < 5.12
Linux/Linux 5.12
Linux/Linux 6.1.23 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.2.3 - 6.2.*
Linux/Linux 6.3
Linux/Linux afc76b8b80112189b6f11e67e19cf58301944814 - 20a7510e781084364691b4962de31de758194cc9
Linux/Linux afc76b8b80112189b6f11e67e19cf58301944814 - 84cfcf240f4a577733b1d98fcd2611a611612b03
Linux/Linux afc76b8b80112189b6f11e67e19cf58301944814 - 8547649981e6631328cd64f583667501ae385531
Published Oct 22, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026