linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53093: tracing: Do not let histogram values have some modifiers

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Message-ID: <2025050221-CVE-2023-53093-0791@gregkh>
Date: Fri,  2 May 2025 17:55:58 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53093: tracing: Do not let histogram values have some modifiers

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tracing: Do not let histogram values have some modifiers

Histogram values can not be strings, stacktraces, graphs, symbols,
syscalls, or grouped in buckets or log. Give an error if a value is set to
do so.

Note, the histogram code was not prepared to handle these modifiers for
histograms and caused a bug.

Mark Rutland reported:

 # echo 'p:copy_to_user __arch_copy_to_user n=$arg2' >> /sys/kernel/tracing/kprobe_events
 # echo 'hist:keys=n:vals=hitcount.buckets=8:sort=hitcount' > /sys/kernel/tracing/events/kprobes/copy_to_user/trigger
 # cat /sys/kernel/tracing/events/kprobes/copy_to_user/hist
[  143.694628] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
[  143.695190] Mem abort info:
[  143.695362]   ESR = 0x0000000096000004
[  143.695604]   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[  143.695889]   SET = 0, FnV = 0
[  143.696077]   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[  143.696302]   FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
[  143.702381] Data abort info:
[  143.702614]   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004
[  143.702832]   CM = 0, WnR = 0
[  143.703087] user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=00000000448f9000
[  143.703407] [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
[  143.704137] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[  143.704714] Modules linked in:
[  143.705273] CPU: 0 PID: 133 Comm: cat Not tainted 6.2.0-00003-g6fc512c10a7c #3
[  143.706138] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
[  143.706723] pstate: 80000005 (Nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[  143.707120] pc : hist_field_name.part.0+0x14/0x140
[  143.707504] lr : hist_field_name.part.0+0x104/0x140
[  143.707774] sp : ffff800008333a30
[  143.707952] x29: ffff800008333a30 x28: 0000000000000001 x27: 0000000000400cc0
[  143.708429] x26: ffffd7a653b20260 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: ffff10d303ee5800
[  143.708776] x23: ffffd7a6539b27b0 x22: ffff10d303fb8c00 x21: 0000000000000001
[  143.709127] x20: ffff10d303ec2000 x19: 0000000000000000 x18: 0000000000000000
[  143.709478] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000000000000000
[  143.709824] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 203a6f666e692072 x12: 6567676972742023
[  143.710179] x11: 0a230a6d6172676f x10: 000000000000002c x9 : ffffd7a6521e018c
[  143.710584] x8 : 000000000000002c x7 : 7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f x6 : 000000000000002c
[  143.710915] x5 : ffff10d303b0103e x4 : ffffd7a653b20261 x3 : 000000000000003d
[  143.711239] x2 : 0000000000020001 x1 : 0000000000000001 x0 : 0000000000000000
[  143.711746] Call trace:
[  143.712115]  hist_field_name.part.0+0x14/0x140
[  143.712642]  hist_field_name.part.0+0x104/0x140
[  143.712925]  hist_field_print+0x28/0x140
[  143.713125]  event_hist_trigger_print+0x174/0x4d0
[  143.713348]  hist_show+0xf8/0x980
[  143.713521]  seq_read_iter+0x1bc/0x4b0
[  143.713711]  seq_read+0x8c/0xc4
[  143.713876]  vfs_read+0xc8/0x2a4
[  143.714043]  ksys_read+0x70/0xfc
[  143.714218]  __arm64_sys_read+0x24/0x30
[  143.714400]  invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120
[  143.714587]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x4c/0x100
[  143.714807]  do_el0_svc+0x44/0xd0
[  143.714970]  el0_svc+0x2c/0x84
[  143.715134]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0xbc/0x140
[  143.715334]  el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194
[  143.715742] Code: a9bd7bfd 910003fd a90153f3 aa0003f3 (f9400000)
[  143.716510] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Segmentation fault

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53093 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 4.7 with commit c6afad49d127f6d7c9957319f55173a2198b1ba8 and fixed in 6.1.23 with commit 39cd75f2f3a43c0e2f95749eb6dd6420c553f87d
	Issue introduced in 4.7 with commit c6afad49d127f6d7c9957319f55173a2198b1ba8 and fixed in 6.2.8 with commit 2fc0ee435c9264cdb7c5e872f76cd9bb97640227
	Issue introduced in 4.7 with commit c6afad49d127f6d7c9957319f55173a2198b1ba8 and fixed in 6.3 with commit e0213434fe3e4a0d118923dc98d31e7ff1cd9e45

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2023-53093
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39cd75f2f3a43c0e2f95749eb6dd6420c553f87d
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2fc0ee435c9264cdb7c5e872f76cd9bb97640227
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0213434fe3e4a0d118923dc98d31e7ff1cd9e45