{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2023-53694", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2025-10-22T13:21:37.344Z", "datePublished": "2025-10-22T13:23:35.869Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T19:50:02.971Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T19:50:02.971Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nriscv: ftrace: Fixup panic by disabling preemption\n\nIn RISCV, we must use an AUIPC + JALR pair to encode an immediate,\nforming a jump that jumps to an address over 4K. This may cause errors\nif we want to enable kernel preemption and remove dependency from\npatching code with stop_machine(). For example, if a task was switched\nout on auipc. And, if we changed the ftrace function before it was\nswitched back, then it would jump to an address that has updated 11:0\nbits mixing with previous XLEN:12 part.\n\np: patched area performed by dynamic ftrace\nftrace_prologue:\np| REG_S ra, -SZREG(sp)\np| auipc ra, 0x? ------------> preempted\n\t\t\t\t\t...\n\t\t\t\tchange ftrace function\n\t\t\t\t\t...\np| jalr -?(ra) <------------- switched back\np| REG_L ra, -SZREG(sp)\nfunc:\n\txxx\n\tret" } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "arch/riscv/Kconfig" ], "versions": [ { "version": "afc76b8b80112189b6f11e67e19cf58301944814", "lessThan": "84cfcf240f4a577733b1d98fcd2611a611612b03", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "afc76b8b80112189b6f11e67e19cf58301944814", "lessThan": "20a7510e781084364691b4962de31de758194cc9", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "afc76b8b80112189b6f11e67e19cf58301944814", "lessThan": "8547649981e6631328cd64f583667501ae385531", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "arch/riscv/Kconfig" ], "versions": [ { "version": "5.12", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "lessThan": "5.12", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.1.23", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.1.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.2.3", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.2.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.3", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix" } ] } ], "cpeApplicability": [ { "nodes": [ { "operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.12", "versionEndExcluding": "6.1.23" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.12", "versionEndExcluding": "6.2.3" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.12", "versionEndExcluding": "6.3" } ] } ] } ], "references": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84cfcf240f4a577733b1d98fcd2611a611612b03" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20a7510e781084364691b4962de31de758194cc9" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8547649981e6631328cd64f583667501ae385531" } ], "title": "riscv: ftrace: Fixup panic by disabling preemption", "x_generator": { "engine": "bippy-1.2.0" } } } }