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CVE-2023-54232

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CVE-2023-54232

Published: Dec 30, 2025

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: m68k: Only force 030 bus error if PC not in exception table __get_kernel_nofault() does copy data in supervisor mode when forcing a task backtrace log through /proc/sysrq_trigger. This is expected cause a bus error exception on e.g. NULL pointer dereferencing when logging a kernel task has no workqueue associated. This bus error ought to be ignored. Our 030 bus error handler is ill equipped to deal with this: Whenever ssw indicates a kernel mode access on a data fault, we don't even attempt to handle the fault and instead always send a SEGV signal (or panic). As a result, the check for exception handling at the fault PC (buried in send_sig_fault() which gets called from do_page_fault() eventually) is never used. In contrast, both 040 and 060 access error handlers do not care whether a fault happened on supervisor mode access, and will call do_page_fault() on those, ultimately honoring the exception table. Add a check in bus_error030 to call do_page_fault() in case we do have an entry for the fault PC in our exception table. I had attempted a fix for this earlier in 2019 that did rely on testing pagefault_disabled() (see link below) to achieve the same thing, but this patch should be more generic. Tested on 030 Atari Falcon.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
f2325ecebc5b7988fd49968bd3a660fd1594dc84 - < 1a6059f5ed57f48edfe7159404ff7d538d9d405b
affected
f2325ecebc5b7988fd49968bd3a660fd1594dc84 - < f55cb52ec98b22125f5bda36391edb8894f7e8cf
affected
f2325ecebc5b7988fd49968bd3a660fd1594dc84 - < 2100e374251a8fc00cce1916cfc50f3cb652cbe3
affected
f2325ecebc5b7988fd49968bd3a660fd1594dc84 - < df1da53a7e98f0b2a0eb2241c154f148f2f2c1d8
affected
f2325ecebc5b7988fd49968bd3a660fd1594dc84 - < 8bf8d5dade4c5e1d8a2386f29253ed28b5d87735

+3 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
2.6.18
unaffected
0 - < 2.6.18
unaffected
4.14.312 - <= 4.14.*
unaffected
4.19.280 - <= 4.19.*
unaffected
5.4.240 - <= 5.4.*

+5 more versions

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