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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53135" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-05-02T15:56:08.287Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:39:08.528Z" 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-2023-53135" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53135.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53135" title: "riscv: Use READ_ONCE_NOCHECK in imprecise unwinding stack mode" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nriscv: Use READ_ONCE_NOCHECK in imprecise unwinding stack mode\n\nWhen CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is unset, the stack unwinding function\nwalk_stackframe randomly reads the stack and then, when KASAN is enabled,\nit can lead to the following backtrace:\n\n[ 0.000000] ==================================================================\n[ 0.000000] BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in walk_stackframe+0xa6/0x11a\n[ 0.000000] Read of size 8 at addr ffffffff81807c40 by task swapper/0\n[ 0.000000]\n[ 0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.2.0-12919-g24203e6db61f #43\n[ 0.000000] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)\n[ 0.000000] Call Trace:\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff80007ba8\u003e] walk_stackframe+0x0/0x11a\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff80099ecc\u003e] init_param_lock+0x26/0x2a\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff80007c4a\u003e] walk_stackframe+0xa2/0x11a\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff80c49c80\u003e] dump_stack_lvl+0x22/0x36\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff80c3783e\u003e] print_report+0x198/0x4a8\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff80099ecc\u003e] init_param_lock+0x26/0x2a\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff80007c4a\u003e] walk_stackframe+0xa2/0x11a\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff8015f68a\u003e] kasan_report+0x9a/0xc8\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff80007c4a\u003e] walk_stackframe+0xa2/0x11a\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff80007c4a\u003e] walk_stackframe+0xa2/0x11a\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff8006e99c\u003e] desc_make_final+0x80/0x84\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff8009a04e\u003e] stack_trace_save+0x88/0xa6\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff80099fc2\u003e] filter_irq_stacks+0x72/0x76\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff8006b95e\u003e] devkmsg_read+0x32a/0x32e\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff8015ec16\u003e] kasan_save_stack+0x28/0x52\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff8006e998\u003e] desc_make_final+0x7c/0x84\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff8009a04a\u003e] stack_trace_save+0x84/0xa6\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff8015ec52\u003e] kasan_set_track+0x12/0x20\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff8015f22e\u003e] __kasan_slab_alloc+0x58/0x5e\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff8015e7ea\u003e] __kmem_cache_create+0x21e/0x39a\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff80e133ac\u003e] create_boot_cache+0x70/0x9c\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff80e17ab2\u003e] kmem_cache_init+0x6c/0x11e\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff80e00fd6\u003e] mm_init+0xd8/0xfe\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff80e011d8\u003e] start_kernel+0x190/0x3ca\n[ 0.000000]\n[ 0.000000] The buggy address belongs to stack of task swapper/0\n[ 0.000000] and is located at offset 0 in frame:\n[ 0.000000] stack_trace_save+0x0/0xa6\n[ 0.000000]\n[ 0.000000] This frame has 1 object:\n[ 0.000000] [32, 56) 'c'\n[ 0.000000]\n[ 0.000000] The buggy address belongs to the physical page:\n[ 0.000000] page:(____ptrval____) refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x81a07\n[ 0.000000] flags: 0x1000(reserved|zone=0)\n[ 0.000000] raw: 0000000000001000 ff600003f1e3d150 ff600003f1e3d150 0000000000000000\n[ 0.000000] raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff\n[ 0.000000] page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected\n[ 0.000000]\n[ 0.000000] Memory state around the buggy address:\n[ 0.000000] ffffffff81807b00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n[ 0.000000] ffffffff81807b80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n[ 0.000000] \u003effffffff81807c00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 00 00 00 f3\n[ 0.000000] ^\n[ 0.000000] ffffffff81807c80: f3 f3 f3 f3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n[ 0.000000] ffffffff81807d00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00\n[ 0.000000] ==================================================================\n\nFix that by using READ_ONCE_NOCHECK when reading the stack in imprecise\nmode." affected: 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