CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

CVE-2013-2094

Linux · Kernel

Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Date added
BOD 22-01 due date
CWE CWE-189
Ransomware Unknown

CISA description

Linux kernel fails to check all 64 bits of attr.config passed by user space, resulting to out-of-bounds access of the perf_swevent_enabled array in sw_perf_event_destroy(). Explotation allows for privilege escalation.

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