CVE-2026-23271 (GCVE-0-2026-23271)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-20 08:08 – Updated: 2026-04-13 06:03
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Title
perf: Fix __perf_event_overflow() vs perf_remove_from_context() race
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf: Fix __perf_event_overflow() vs perf_remove_from_context() race Make sure that __perf_event_overflow() runs with IRQs disabled for all possible callchains. Specifically the software events can end up running it with only preemption disabled. This opens up a race vs perf_event_exit_event() and friends that will go and free various things the overflow path expects to be present, like the BPF program.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Linux Linux Affected: 592903cdcbf606a838056bae6d03fc557806c914 , < 4df1a45819e50993cb351682a6ae8e7ed2d233a0 (git)
Affected: 592903cdcbf606a838056bae6d03fc557806c914 , < 4f8d5812337871227bb2c98669a87c306a2f86ef (git)
Affected: 592903cdcbf606a838056bae6d03fc557806c914 , < 5c48fdc4b4623533d86e279f51531a7ba212eb87 (git)
Affected: 592903cdcbf606a838056bae6d03fc557806c914 , < 3f89b61dd504c5b6711de9759e053b082f9abf12 (git)
Affected: 592903cdcbf606a838056bae6d03fc557806c914 , < bb190628fe5f2a73ba762a9972ba16c5e895f73e (git)
Affected: 592903cdcbf606a838056bae6d03fc557806c914 , < c9bc1753b3cc41d0e01fbca7f035258b5f4db0ae (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.31
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.31 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.167 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.130 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.77 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.17 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.7 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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