4.9 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.2%
Buffer overflow in the perf_copy_attr function in kernel/perf_counter.c in
the Linux kernel 2.6.31-rc1 allows local users to cause a denial of service
(crash) and execute arbitrary code via a “big size data” to the
perf_counter_open system call.