Bug 2355487 (CVE-2023-52992)

Summary: CVE-2023-52992 kernel: bpf: Skip task with pid=1 in send_signal_common()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-03-27 17:03:54 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Skip task with pid=1 in send_signal_common()

The following kernel panic can be triggered when a task with pid=1 attaches
a prog that attempts to send killing signal to itself, also see [1] for more
details:

  Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b
  CPU: 3 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 6.1.0-09652-g59fe41b5255f #148
  Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
  dump_stack_lvl+0x100/0x178 lib/dump_stack.c:106
  panic+0x2c4/0x60f kernel/panic.c:275
  do_exit.cold+0x63/0xe4 kernel/exit.c:789
  do_group_exit+0xd4/0x2a0 kernel/exit.c:950
  get_signal+0x2460/0x2600 kernel/signal.c:2858
  arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x78/0x5d0 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:306
  exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:168 [inline]
  exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x15f/0x250 kernel/entry/common.c:203
  __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:285 [inline]
  syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1d/0x50 kernel/entry/common.c:296
  do_syscall_64+0x44/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

So skip task with pid=1 in bpf_send_signal_common() to avoid the panic.

  [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20221222043507.33037-1-sunhao.th@gmail.com