Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-6931 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 7.0 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
HIGH
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
local
high complexity
linux
debian
CWE-787

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Linux
2971
OS
Debian
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)