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    "id": "CVE-2023-52978",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52978",
    "idYear": 2023,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2025-03-27T16:43:18.185Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-11T19:36:17.764Z",
    "importedAt": "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z",
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      "id": "cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline",
      "at": "2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z",
      "source": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"
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      "title": "riscv: kprobe: Fixup kernel panic when probing an illegal position",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nriscv: kprobe: Fixup kernel panic when probing an illegal position\n\nThe kernel would panic when probed for an illegal position. eg:\n\n(CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_C=n)\n\necho 'p:hello kernel_clone+0x16 a0=%a0' >> kprobe_events\necho 1 > events/kprobes/hello/enable\ncat trace\n\nKernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack\nis corrupted in: __do_sys_newfstatat+0xb8/0xb8\nCPU: 0 PID: 111 Comm: sh Not tainted\n6.2.0-rc1-00027-g2d398fe49a4d #490\nHardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)\nCall Trace:\n[<ffffffff80007268>] dump_backtrace+0x38/0x48\n[<ffffffff80c5e83c>] show_stack+0x50/0x68\n[<ffffffff80c6da28>] dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x84\n[<ffffffff80c6da6c>] dump_stack+0x20/0x30\n[<ffffffff80c5ecf4>] panic+0x160/0x374\n[<ffffffff80c6db94>] generic_handle_arch_irq+0x0/0xa8\n[<ffffffff802deeb0>] sys_newstat+0x0/0x30\n[<ffffffff800158c0>] sys_clone+0x20/0x30\n[<ffffffff800039e8>] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x4\n---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector:\nKernel stack is corrupted in: __do_sys_newfstatat+0xb8/0xb8 ]---\n\nThat is because the kprobe's ebreak instruction broke the kernel's\noriginal code. The user should guarantee the correction of the probe\nposition, but it couldn't make the kernel panic.\n\nThis patch adds arch_check_kprobe in arch_prepare_kprobe to prevent an\nillegal position (Such as the middle of an instruction).",
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