# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
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"
snapshot: {"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"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52978"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52978.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52978"
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' \u003e\u003e kprobe_events\necho 1 \u003e 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[\u003cffffffff80007268\u003e] dump_backtrace+0x38/0x48\n[\u003cffffffff80c5e83c\u003e] show_stack+0x50/0x68\n[\u003cffffffff80c6da28\u003e] dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x84\n[\u003cffffffff80c6da6c\u003e] dump_stack+0x20/0x30\n[\u003cffffffff80c5ecf4\u003e] panic+0x160/0x374\n[\u003cffffffff80c6db94\u003e] generic_handle_arch_irq+0x0/0xa8\n[\u003cffffffff802deeb0\u003e] sys_newstat+0x0/0x30\n[\u003cffffffff800158c0\u003e] sys_clone+0x20/0x30\n[\u003cffffffff800039e8\u003e] 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)."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c22b0bcb1dd024cb9caad9230e3a387d8b061df5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"04a73558209554da17f46490ec4faaaf1b2bab68"},{"version":"c22b0bcb1dd024cb9caad9230e3a387d8b061df5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"12316538b1d193064109ce1a28fc9bacd43950de"},{"version":"c22b0bcb1dd024cb9caad9230e3a387d8b061df5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"87f48c7ccc73afc78630530d9af51f458f58cab8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.12"},{"version":"5.15.93","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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