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CVE-2023-2235

Use-after-free in Linux kernel's Performance Events subsystem PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux Kernel Performance Events system can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. The perf_group_detach function did not check the event's siblings' attach_state before calling add_event_to_groups(), but remove_on_exec made it possible to call list_del_event() on before detaching from their group, making it possible to use a dangling pointer causing a use-after-free vulnerability. We recommend upgrading past commit fd0815f632c24878e325821943edccc7fde947a2.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linux Kernelaffected 5.13 before 6.3

CWE

CWE-416

References

ADP enrichment

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