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Vulnerability Details CVE-2023-6931

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 382c27f4ed28f803b1f1473ac2d8db0afc795a1b.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.002
EPSS Ranking 47.3%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.8
Products affected by CVE-2023-6931


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