THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2023-6931 (HIGH 7.8) — 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 rec
[NVD] CVE-2023-6931 (HIGH 7.8) — 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 rec
CVE-2023-6931 CVSS: 7.8 HIGH Published: 2023-12-19T14:15:08.277
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 382c27f4ed28f803b1f1473ac2
Indicators of compromise
- 382c27f4ed28f803b1f1473ac2d8db0afc795a1bsha1
- CVE-2023-6931cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6931