perf sched: Fix register_pid() overflow, strcpy, and BUG_ON (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-80671
CRITICAL 9.3

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.16 % · percentile 5 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf sched: Fix register_pid() overflow, strcpy, and BUG_ON register_pid() has several issues when processing untrusted perf.data: 1. Integer overflow: (pid + 1) * sizeof(struct task_desc *) can wrap to a small value on 32-bit systems when pid is large (e.g. 0x40000000), causing realloc to return a tiny buffer followed by out-of-bounds writes in the initialization loop. 2. Heap buffer overflow: strcpy(task->comm, comm) copies the untrusted comm string into a fixed 20-byte COMM_LEN buffer with no length check. 3. BUG_ON on allocation failure: perf.data is untrusted input, so allocation failures should be handled gracefully rather than killing the process. 4. Realloc of sched->tasks assigned directly back, leaking the old pointer on failure; nr_tasks incremented before the realloc, leaving corrupted state on failure. Cap pid at PID_MAX_LIMIT (4194304, matching the kernel's maximum on 64-bit), replace strcpy with strlcpy, guard against NULL comm, replace BUG_ON with NULL returns using safe realloc patterns, and add NULL checks in callers that dereference the result.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected ec156764d424dd67283c2cd5e9f6f1b8388364ac < 344e59fc4f2cba6dc04ce5e2a77388645d4ca834 ; affected ec156764d424dd67283c2cd5e9f6f1b8388364ac < 22263d241bad753217d545f8085b7ead52e2873b ; affected ec156764d424dd67283c2cd5e9f6f1b8388364ac < 2003918e13f43cf6c5698be3cc9aa3657dd676a8 ; affected ec156764d424dd67283c2cd5e9f6f1b8388364ac < 29639f00bfa49da7904ba0a499e0da7a0e5d735e ; affected ec156764d424dd67283c2cd5e9f6f1b8388364ac < 261d2b5f4afa0570ca906e553c93811c5abe4590 ; affected ec156764d424dd67283c2cd5e9f6f1b8388364ac < 652cea73b7b7b7c622a2be670e44e3c499c6d49f
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.32 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.32 ; unaffected 5.10.270 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.221 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.188 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.157 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD