Answer in brief
CVE-2026-80671 records a Unknown severity vulnerability in perf sched: Fix register_pid() overflow, strcpy, and BUG_ON. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | >=ec156764d424dd67283c2cd5e9f6f1b8388364ac <652cea73b7b7b7c622a2be670e44e3c499c6d49f || >=ec156764d424dd67283c2cd5e9f6f1b8388364ac <5ea1dcc9418c4e06ce29ed5170596f497ba86872 || >=ec156764d424dd67283c2cd5e9f6f1b8388364ac <5949d339f5ec98752d56dcd4e36f619a59d513a5 | 652cea73b7b7b7c622a2be670e44e3c499c6d49f, 5ea1dcc9418c4e06ce29ed5170596f497ba86872, 5949d339f5ec98752d56dcd4e36f619a59d513a5 |
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | 2.6.32 | Not reported |
Published upstream
Aug 28, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Aug 28, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Aug 28, 2026
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.
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