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Tracker / CVE-2013-2094

CVE-2013-2094

Exploited High 8.4

The perf_swevent_init function in kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.9 uses an incorrect integer data type, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted perf_event_open system call.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · … → 3.0.75
linux linux_kernel · 3.1 → 3.2.45
linux linux_kernel · 3.3 → 3.4.42
linux linux_kernel · 3.5 → 3.8.9

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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