CVE-2023-52995

riscv/kprobe: Fix instruction simulation of JALR

published March 27, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
16.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

riscv/kprobe: Fix instruction simulation of JALR

Set kprobe at 'jalr 1140(ra)' of vfs_write results in the following

crash:

[ 32.092235] Unable to handle kernel access to user memory without uaccess routines at virtual address 00aaaaaad77b1170

[ 32.093115] Oops [#1]

[ 32.093251] Modules linked in:

[ 32.093626] CPU: 0 PID: 135 Comm: ftracetest Not tainted 6.2.0-rc2-00013-gb0aa5e5df0cb-dirty #16

[ 32.093985] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)

[ 32.094280] epc : ksys_read+0x88/0xd6

[ 32.094855] ra : ksys_read+0xc0/0xd6

[ 32.095016] epc : ffffffff801cda80 ra : ffffffff801cdab8 sp : ff20000000d7bdc0

[ 32.095227] gp : ffffffff80f14000 tp : ff60000080f9cb40 t0 : ffffffff80f13e80

[ 32.095500] t1 : ffffffff8000c29c t2 : ffffffff800dbc54 s0 : ff20000000d7be60

[ 32.095716] s1 : 0000000000000000 a0 : ffffffff805a64ae a1 : ffffffff80a83708

[ 32.095921] a2 : ffffffff80f160a0 a3 : 0000000000000000 a4 : f229b0afdb165300

[ 32.096171] a5 : f229b0afdb165300 a6 : ffffffff80eeebd0 a7 : 00000000000003ff

[ 32.096411] s2 : ff6000007ff76800 s3 : fffffffffffffff7 s4 : 00aaaaaad77b1170

[ 32.096638] s5 : ffffffff80f160a0 s6 : ff6000007ff76800 s7 : 0000000000000030

[ 32.096865] s8 : 00ffffffc3d97be0 s9 : 0000000000000007 s10: 00aaaaaad77c9410

[ 32.097092] s11: 0000000000000000 t3 : ffffffff80f13e48 t4 : ffffffff8000c29c

[ 32.097317] t5 : ffffffff8000c29c t6 : ffffffff800dbc54

[ 32.097505] status: 0000000200000120 badaddr: 00aaaaaad77b1170 cause: 000000000000000d

[ 32.098011] [<ffffffff801cdb72>] ksys_write+0x6c/0xd6

[ 32.098222] [<ffffffff801cdc06>] sys_write+0x2a/0x38

[ 32.098405] [<ffffffff80003c76>] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x2

Since the rs1 and rd might be the same one, such as 'jalr 1140(ra)',

hence it requires obtaining the target address from rs1 followed by

updating rd.

[Palmer: Pick Guo's cleanup]

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00258 · 16.5th percentile
Published
2025-03-27T16:43Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 MAR 16:43Z
    riscv/kprobe: Fix instruction simulation of JALR
    cvelistv5