{"cve":"CVE-2024-38568","nvd":{"published":"2024-06-19T14:15:16.950","modified":"2026-08-04T11:18:44.880","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrivers/perf: hisi: hns3: Fix out-of-bound access when valid event group\n\nThe perf tool allows users to create event groups through following\ncmd [1], but the driver does not check whether the array index is out\nof bounds when writing data to the event_group array. If the number of\nevents in an event_group is greater than HNS3_PMU_MAX_HW_EVENTS, the\nmemory write overflow of event_group array occurs.\n\nAdd array index check to fix the possible array out of bounds violation,\nand return directly when write new events are written to array bounds.\n\nThere are 9 different events in an event_group.\n[1] perf stat -e '{pmu/event1/, ... ,pmu/event9/}","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":7.8},"cwes":["CWE-129"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3669baf308308385a2ab391324abdde5682af5aa","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81bdd60a3d1d3b05e6cc6674845afb1694dd3a0e","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa2d3d678895c8eedd003f1473f87d3f06fe6ec7","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5120d322763c15c978bc47beb3b6dff45624304","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be1fa711e59c874d049f592aef1d4685bdd22bdf"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:52:00.836172422+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2024-38568","score":0.00234,"percentile":0.14362,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}