Security Advisory

CVE-2013-2094

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-05-14 20:00:00

Last updated 2025-10-22 00:05:42

Assigner redhat

State PUBLISHED

Description

The perf_swevent_init function in kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.9 uses an incorrect integer data type, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted perf_event_open system call.

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