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Unscored CVE-2023-53135 EUVD-2025-13129GHSA-2c79-g4hv-82qp

riscv: Use READ_ONCE_NOCHECK in imprecise unwinding stack mode

Published May 2, 2025 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

Vendor: Linux Product: Linux Package: linux Package: linux Package: linux-allwinner-5.19 Package: linux-aws Package: linux-aws-5.0 Package: linux-aws-5.11 Package: linux-aws-5.13 Package: linux-aws-5.15 Package: linux-aws-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.3 Package: linux-aws-5.4 Package: linux-aws-5.8 Package: linux-aws-6.2 Package: linux-aws-6.5 Package: linux-aws-fips Package: linux-aws-hwe Package: linux-azure Package: linux-azure-4.15 Package: linux-azure-5.11 Package: linux-azure-5.13 Package: linux-azure-5.15 Package: linux-azure-5.19 Package: linux-azure-5.3 Package: linux-azure-5.4 Package: linux-azure-5.8 Package: linux-azure-6.2 Package: linux-azure-6.5 Package: linux-azure-edge Package: linux-azure-fde Package: linux-azure-fde-5.19 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.2 Package: linux-azure-fips Package: linux-bluefield Package: linux-fips Package: linux-gcp Package: linux-gcp-4.15 Package: linux-gcp-5.11 Package: linux-gcp-5.13 Package: linux-gcp-5.15 Package: linux-gcp-5.19 Package: linux-gcp-5.3 Package: linux-gcp-5.4 Package: linux-gcp-5.8 Package: linux-gcp-6.2 Package: linux-gcp-6.5 Package: linux-gcp-fips Package: linux-gke Package: linux-gke-4.15 Package: linux-gke-5.15 Package: linux-gke-5.4 Package: linux-gkeop Package: linux-gkeop-5.15 Package: linux-gkeop-5.4 Package: linux-hwe Package: linux-hwe-5.11 Package: linux-hwe-5.13 Package: linux-hwe-5.15 Package: linux-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-hwe-5.4 Package: linux-hwe-5.8 Package: linux-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-hwe-edge Package: linux-ibm Package: linux-ibm-5.15 Package: linux-ibm-5.4 Package: linux-intel-5.13 Package: linux-intel-iot-realtime Package: linux-intel-iotg Package: linux-intel-iotg-5.15 Package: linux-iot Package: linux-kvm Package: linux-lowlatency Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-nvidia Package: linux-nvidia-6.2 Package: linux-nvidia-6.5 Package: linux-nvidia-tegra Package: linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15 Package: linux-nvidia-tegra-igx Package: linux-oem Package: linux-oem-5.10 Package: linux-oem-5.13 Package: linux-oem-5.14 Package: linux-oem-5.17 Package: linux-oem-5.6 Package: linux-oem-6.0 Package: linux-oem-6.1 Package: linux-oem-6.5 Package: linux-oracle Package: linux-oracle-5.0 Package: linux-oracle-5.11 Package: linux-oracle-5.13 Package: linux-oracle-5.15 Package: linux-oracle-5.3 Package: linux-oracle-5.4 Package: linux-oracle-5.8 Package: linux-oracle-6.5 Package: linux-raspi Package: linux-raspi-5.4 Package: linux-raspi-realtime Package: linux-raspi2 Package: linux-realtime Package: linux-riscv Package: linux-riscv-5.11 Package: linux-riscv-5.15 Package: linux-riscv-5.19 Package: linux-riscv-5.8 Package: linux-riscv-6.5 Package: linux-starfive-5.19 Package: linux-starfive-6.2 Package: linux-starfive-6.5 Package: linux-vmware Package: linux-xilinx-zynqmp Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

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

riscv: Use READ_ONCE_NOCHECK in imprecise unwinding stack mode

When CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER 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 walk_stackframe+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>] walk_stackframe+0x0/0x11a
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80099ecc>] init_param_lock+0x26/0x2a
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80007c4a>] walk_stackframe+0xa2/0x11a
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80c49c80>] dump_stack_lvl+0x22/0x36
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80c3783e>] print_report+0x198/0x4a8
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80099ecc>] init_param_lock+0x26/0x2a
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80007c4a>] walk_stackframe+0xa2/0x11a
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8015f68a>] kasan_report+0x9a/0xc8
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80007c4a>] walk_stackframe+0xa2/0x11a
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80007c4a>] walk_stackframe+0xa2/0x11a
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8006e99c>] desc_make_final+0x80/0x84
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8009a04e>] stack_trace_save+0x88/0xa6
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80099fc2>] filter_irq_stacks+0x72/0x76
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8006b95e>] devkmsg_read+0x32a/0x32e
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8015ec16>] kasan_save_stack+0x28/0x52
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8006e998>] desc_make_final+0x7c/0x84
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8009a04a>] stack_trace_save+0x84/0xa6
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8015ec52>] kasan_set_track+0x12/0x20
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8015f22e>] __kasan_slab_alloc+0x58/0x5e
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8015e7ea>] __kmem_cache_create+0x21e/0x39a
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80e133ac>] create_boot_cache+0x70/0x9c
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80e17ab2>] kmem_cache_init+0x6c/0x11e
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80e00fd6>] mm_init+0xd8/0xfe
[ 0.000000] [<ffffffff80e011d8>] start_kernel+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] stack_trace_save+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 READ_ONCE_NOCHECK when reading the stack in imprecise
mode.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 4.15 5.4.237

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.1.20-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.1.20-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.1.20-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Nvidia-BlueField 22.04 LTS linux-bluefield 5.15.0-1022.24 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-realtime +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux 5.15.0-79.86 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws 5.15.0-1042.47 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure 5.15.0-1045.52 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 5.15.0-1045.52.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.15.0-1039.47 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gke +1 5.15.0-1039.44 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gkeop 5.15.0-1025.30 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm +1 5.15.0-1035.38 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg 5.15.0-1037.42 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-lowlatency 5.15.0-79.88 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia 5.15.0-1030.30 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra 5.15.0-1016.16 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra-igx 5.15.0-1002.2 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.15.0-1040.46 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +31 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-xilinx-zynqmp 5.15.0-1025.29 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux 5.4.0-156.173 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws 5.4.0-1107.115 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws-5.15 5.15.0-1041.46~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure 5.4.0-1114.120 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure-5.15 5.15.0-1045.52~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-bluefield 5.4.0-1068.74 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.4.0-1110.119 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.15 5.15.0-1039.47~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-79.86~20.04.2 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.4.0-1054.59 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-ibm-5.15 5.15.0-1036.39~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg-5.15 5.15.0-1037.42~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-iot 5.4.0-1019.20 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-kvm 5.4.0-1096.102 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-79.88~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15 5.15.0-1016.16~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.4.0-1106.115 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.15 5.15.0-1040.46~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.4.0-1091.102 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-riscv-5.15 5.15.0-1038.42~20.04.2 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-xilinx-zynqmp 5.4.0-1027.31 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Show 10 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iot-realtime 5.15.0-1036.38 —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime 5.15.0-1043.48 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 20.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 18.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 5.4.0-1107.115+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 5.4.0-1113.119+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-fips 5.4.0-1082.91 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 5.4.0-1110.119+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-preview 22.04 LTS linux-fips No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux +5 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux-aws-5.4 5.4.0-1107.115~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux-azure-5.4 5.4.0-1113.119~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.4 5.4.0-1110.119~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.4 5.4.0-156.173~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux-ibm-5.4 5.4.0-1054.59~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.4 5.4.0-1106.115~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux-raspi-5.4 5.4.0-1091.102~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-gcp +4 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS linux-azure No fix yet —

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