Linux kernel Performance Monitoring Driver Heap Buffer Overflow DoS

The vulnerability of the riscvpmustart function in the drivers/perf/riscvpmu.c module of the Linux kernel’s performance monitoring driver is related to improper handling of exceptional conditions. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a system failure...

CVE-2023-53583: Undefined Security Weakness

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf: RISC-V: Remove PERFHESSTOPPED flag checking in riscvpmustart Since commit 096b52fd2bb4 "perf: RISC-V: throttle perf events" the perfsampleeventtook function was added to report time spent in overflow interrupts. If the...