CVE-2023-6931

Se puede aprovechar una vulnerabilidad de escritura fuera de los límites en la pila en el componente del sistema Performance Events del kernel de Linux para lograr una escalada de privilegios local. El read_size de un perf_event puede desbordarse, lo que lleva a un incremento o escritura fuera de los límites en la pila en perf_read_group(). Recomendamos actualizar al commit anterior 382c27f4ed28f803b1f1473ac2d8db0afc795a1b.

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Performance Events system component. A condition can be triggered that allows data to be written past the end or before the beginning of the intended memory buffer. This may lead to a system crash, code execution, or local privilege escalation.

It was discovered that the CIFS network file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the server frame size in certain situation, leading to an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious CIFS image that, when operated on, could cause a denial of service or possibly expose sensitive information. Budimir Markovic, Lucas De Marchi, and Pengfei Xu discovered that the perf subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate all event sizes when attaching new events, leading to an out-of-bounds write vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.