CVE-2023-5717 - Heap overflow
CVE Information
Original CVE data
A heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Linux kernel's Linux Kernel Performance Events (perf) component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. If perf_read_group() is called while an event's sibling_list is smaller than its child's sibling_list, it can increment or write to memory locations outside of the allocated buffer. We recommend upgrading past commit 32671e3799ca2e4590773fd0e63aaa4229e50c06.
Linux - (1)
Basic Analysis
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Heap overflow
Vulnerability weakness type is in the top 25 CWEs according to MITRE. View Mitre Top 25 CWEs
No exploit code is reported to exist.
Vulnerability is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. See the KEV Catalog
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