{"cve":"CVE-2026-80671","nvd":{"published":"2026-08-28T08:16:52.410","modified":"2026-09-14T13:18:48.167","status":"Received","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nperf sched: Fix register_pid() overflow, strcpy, and BUG_ON\n\nregister_pid() has several issues when processing untrusted perf.data:\n\n1. Integer overflow: (pid + 1) * sizeof(struct task_desc *) can wrap\n   to a small value on 32-bit systems when pid is large (e.g.\n   0x40000000), causing realloc to return a tiny buffer followed by\n   out-of-bounds writes in the initialization loop.\n\n2. Heap buffer overflow: strcpy(task->comm, comm) copies the\n   untrusted comm string into a fixed 20-byte COMM_LEN buffer with\n   no length check.\n\n3. BUG_ON on allocation failure: perf.data is untrusted input, so\n   allocation failures should be handled gracefully rather than\n   killing the process.\n\n4. Realloc of sched->tasks assigned directly back, leaking the old\n   pointer on failure; nr_tasks incremented before the realloc,\n   leaving corrupted state on failure.\n\nCap pid at PID_MAX_LIMIT (4194304, matching the kernel's maximum\non 64-bit), replace strcpy with strlcpy, guard against NULL comm,\nreplace BUG_ON with NULL returns using safe realloc patterns, and\nadd NULL checks in callers that dereference the result.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":9.3},"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2003918e13f43cf6c5698be3cc9aa3657dd676a8","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22263d241bad753217d545f8085b7ead52e2873b","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/261d2b5f4afa0570ca906e553c93811c5abe4590","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29639f00bfa49da7904ba0a499e0da7a0e5d735e","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/344e59fc4f2cba6dc04ce5e2a77388645d4ca834"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:50:50.842544443+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-80671","score":0.00156,"percentile":0.04761,"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."]}