Security Advisory
CVE-2023-5717
CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations
Description
A heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Linux kernels Linux Kernel Performance Events (perf) component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. If perf_read_group() is called while an events sibling_list is smaller than its childs sibling_list, it can increment or write to memory locations outside of the allocated buffer. We recommend upgrading past commit 32671e3799ca2e4590773fd0e63aaa4229e50c06.