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CVE-2023-6931

Out-of-bounds write in Linux kernel's Performance Events system component PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

A heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Linux kernel's Performance Events system component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. A perf_event's read_size can overflow, leading to an heap out-of-bounds increment or write in perf_read_group(). We recommend upgrading past commit 382c27f4ed28f803b1f1473ac2d8db0afc795a1b.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linux Kernelaffected 4.3.0 before 4.19.302; affected 4.20.0 before 5.4.264; affected 5.5.0 before 5.10.204; affected 5.11.0 before 5.15.143; affected 5.16.0 before 6.1.68; affected 6.2.0 before 6.6.7; unaffected 6.7.0; unaffected 382c27f4ed28f803b1f1473ac2d8db0afc795a1b

CWE

CWE-787

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

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