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CVE-2023-5717

7.8 high exploit SSVC exploitation: none Modified
NVD · CVE.org

A heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Linux kernel's Linux Kernel Performance Events (perf) component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. If perf_read_group() is called while an event's sibling_list is smaller than its child's sibling_list, it can increment or write to memory locations outside of the allocated buffer. We recommend upgrading past commit 32671e3799ca2e4590773fd0e63aaa4229e50c06.

Fix

Public exploits 1

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Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 4

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Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 7.8 · linuxNVD modified 2026-10-14 22:17

Affected (CPE criteria) 7

  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 12