🛡️ CVE-2023-6931
🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-787 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

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.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-787
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-12-19
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2026-05-12

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
debian-linux
linux-kernel 4.3 6.7

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