# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-52992"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-03-27T16:43:27.618Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:36:31.658Z"
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-2023-52992"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52992.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52992"
title: "bpf: Skip task with pid=1 in send_signal_common()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Skip task with pid=1 in send_signal_common()\n\nThe following kernel panic can be triggered when a task with pid=1 attaches\na prog that attempts to send killing signal to itself, also see [1] for more\ndetails:\n\n  Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b\n  CPU: 3 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 6.1.0-09652-g59fe41b5255f #148\n  Call Trace:\n  \u003cTASK\u003e\n  __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]\n  dump_stack_lvl+0x100/0x178 lib/dump_stack.c:106\n  panic+0x2c4/0x60f kernel/panic.c:275\n  do_exit.cold+0x63/0xe4 kernel/exit.c:789\n  do_group_exit+0xd4/0x2a0 kernel/exit.c:950\n  get_signal+0x2460/0x2600 kernel/signal.c:2858\n  arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x78/0x5d0 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:306\n  exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:168 [inline]\n  exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x15f/0x250 kernel/entry/common.c:203\n  __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:285 [inline]\n  syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1d/0x50 kernel/entry/common.c:296\n  do_syscall_64+0x44/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86\n  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\nSo skip task with pid=1 in bpf_send_signal_common() to avoid the panic.\n\n  [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20221222043507.33037-1-sunhao.th@gmail.com"
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