2023-10-25 12:55:06
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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.