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 perfsweventenabled array in swperfeventdestroy. Explotation allows for privilege escalation...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2013-2094

The perfsweventinit 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 perfeventopen system call...