KASAN stack-depot exhaustion via unfiltered IRQ frames
Published Dec 30, 2025 · Updated Dec 30, 2025
Call-stack filtering in the arm64 Linux kernel before 6.5 allows attackers to exhaust KASAN stack-depot capacity through IRQ handling. Without CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER, gic_handle_irq falls outside the __irqentry_text bounds, so filter_irq_stacks retains IRQ frames and records unintended deep stacks. The condition requires an arm64 KASAN-enabled kernel built without that tracer; the documented consequence is stack-depot exhaustion and a kernel warning.
Summary
What happened
Call-stack filtering in the arm64 Linux kernel before 6.5 allows attackers to exhaust KASAN stack-depot capacity through IRQ handling. Without CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER, gic_handle_irq falls outside the __irqentry_text bounds, so filter_irq_stacks retains IRQ frames and records unintended deep stacks. The condition requires an arm64 KASAN-enabled kernel built without that tracer; the documented consequence is stack-depot exhaustion and a kernel warning.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-54322
- Published
- Dec 30, 2025
- Updated
- Dec 30, 2025
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
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- Dec 30, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Dec 30, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 <0bd309f22663f3ee749bea0b6d70642c31a1c0a5
- Affected versionversion=1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 <c71d6934c6ac40a97146a410e0320768c7b1bb3c
- Affected versionversion=1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 <d3b219e504fc5c5a25fa7c04c8589ff34baef9a8
- Affected versionversion=1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 <f6794950f0e5ba37e3bbedda4d6ab0aad7395dd3
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