Summary
Linux kernel fails to check all 64 bits of attr.config passed by user space, resulting to out-of-bounds access of the perf_swevent_enabled array in sw_perf_event_destroy(). Explotation allows for privilege escalation.
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Kernel
- Added to KEV
- Sep 15, 2022
- Remediation due
- Oct 6, 2022 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Not known
- Weakness
- CWE-189
- EPSS
- 47.7% as of Nov 12
In the news
- No Asia-Pacific article names this CVE yet.
Linked
Actors named alongside it:
none
Incidents exploiting it:
- none recorded
References