Out-of-bounds write in Linux kernel's Linux Kernel Performance Events (perf) component

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Summary

CVECVE-2023-5717
StatePUBLISHED
AssignerGoogle
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-10-25 18:17:43 UTC
Updated2026-10-14 22:17:21 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 7.8 HIGH from [email protected]

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem Types: CWE-787 | CWE-787 CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1[email protected]Primary7.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
3.1[email protected]Secondary7.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
3.1CNACVSS7.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Linux Kernel affected 4.4 6.6 custom Not specified
ADP Siemens RUGGEDCOM RST2428P unaffected * custom Not specified
ADP Siemens SCALANCE XC-300/XR-300/XC-400/XR-500WG/XR-500 Family unaffected * custom Not specified
ADP Siemens SCALANCE XCM-/XRM-/XCH-/XRH-300 Family unaffected * custom Not specified
ADP Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP affected V3.1.0 V3.1.5 custom Not specified
ADP Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP affected V3.1.0 V3.1.5 custom Not specified
ADP Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP affected V3.1.0 V3.1.5 custom Not specified
ADP Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP affected V3.1.0 V3.1.5 custom Not specified
ADP Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 TM MFP - GNU/Linux Subsystem affected V1.1 custom Not specified
ADP Siemens SIPLUS S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP affected V3.1.0 V3.1.5 custom Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e cert-portal.siemens.com
kernel.dance/32671e3799ca2e4590773fd0e63aaa4229e50c06 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 kernel.dance Patch
cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-769027.html 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e cert-portal.siemens.com
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00005.html af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 git.kernel.org Mailing List, Patch
cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-613116.html 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e cert-portal.siemens.com
cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-794697.html 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e cert-portal.siemens.com
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00004.html af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

CNA: Budimir Markovic (en)

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 161372 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for kernel (ELSA-2024-12169)
  • 161402 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for kernel (ELSA-2024-0897)
  • 161417 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for kernel (ELSA-2024-1248)
  • 199929 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (OEM) Vulnerabilities (USN-6497-1)
  • 199936 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6494-1)
  • 199970 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6494-2)
  • 199976 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6534-1)
  • 199979 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6532-1)
  • 199980 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerability (USN-6536-1)
  • 199982 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (GCP) Vulnerability (USN-6537-1)
  • 199996 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6549-1)
  • 199997 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6548-1)
  • 199999 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6548-2)
  • 200002 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6534-2)
  • 200003 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (GKE) Vulnerabilities (USN-6549-2)
  • 200006 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Oracle) Vulnerabilities (USN-6548-3)
  • 200007 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Low Latency) Vulnerabilities (USN-6549-3)
  • 200010 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6534-3)
  • 200024 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) Vulnerabilities (USN-6549-4)
  • 200035 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6549-5)
  • 200037 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (IoT) Vulnerabilities (USN-6548-5)
  • 200113 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (GCP) Vulnerabilities (USN-6635-1)
  • 242789 Red Hat Update for kernel (RHSA-2024:0575)
  • 242845 Red Hat Update for kernel (RHSA-2024:0448)
  • 242846 Red Hat Update for kernel-rt (RHSA-2024:0439)
  • 242890 Red Hat Update for kernel (RHSA-2024:0724)
  • 242939 Red Hat Update for kernel (RHSA-2024:0897)
  • 242983 Red Hat Update for kernel-rt (RHSA-2024:0881)
  • 243050 Red Hat Update for kernel (RHSA-2024:1250)
  • 243052 Red Hat Update for kernel (RHSA-2024:1248)
  • 243062 Red Hat Update for kernel-rt (RHSA-2024:1306)
  • 356736 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2-2023-2340
  • 356744 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS-2023-1883
  • 356874 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2023-056
  • 356887 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2023-043
  • 356889 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2023-030
  • 356908 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2023-2023-430
  • 356919 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel-livepatch : ALAS2023LIVEPATCH-2023-026
  • 356921 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel-livepatch : ALAS2023LIVEPATCH-2023-022
  • 356922 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel-livepatch : ALAS2023LIVEPATCH-2023-023
  • 356923 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel-livepatch : ALAS2023LIVEPATCH-2023-024
  • 356924 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel-livepatch : ALAS2023LIVEPATCH-2023-025
  • 356925 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel-livepatch : ALAS2023LIVEPATCH-2023-021
  • 379435 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX2-SA-2024:0012)
  • 379614 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX3-SA-2024:0017)
  • 6000419 Debian Security Update for linux (DSA 5594-1)
  • 6000428 Debian Security Update for linux-5.10 (DLA 3711-1)
  • 6000429 Debian Security Update for linux (DLA 3710-1)
  • 6140011 AWS Bottlerocket Security Update for kernel (GHSA-4wjq-xvff-wqvw)
  • 6140205 AWS Bottlerocket Security Update for kernel (GHSA-4wjq-xvff-wqvw)
  • 673534 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2024-1086)
  • 673595 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-3247)
  • 673644 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-3336)
  • 673692 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-3275)
  • 673923 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2024-1062)
  • 673995 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2024-1275)
  • 674042 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-3304)
  • 755395 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:4784-1)
  • 755479 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:4882-1)
  • 755480 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:4883-1)
  • 907621 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for hyperv-daemons (31814-1)
  • 907646 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (31774-1)
  • 941584 AlmaLinux Security Update for kernel (ALSA-2024:0897)

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