Risk Letters

Exploited vulnerability

CVE-2013-2094

TLP:CLEAR

Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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.

Facts

  • Vendor: Linux
  • Product: Kernel
  • CVSS: 8.4
  • EPSS (probability of exploitation within 30 days): 47.7 %
  • On CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list since: 15 September 2022
  • First known exploitation: 15 September 2022
  • CISA's deadline for US federal agencies: 6 October 2022
  • Weakness: CWE-189
  • First seen by Risk Letters: 15 September 2022

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Data: NVD (public domain), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, MITRE ATT&CK, AlienVault OTX. NVD