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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31528"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-22T13:54:41.180Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:45:55.081Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31528"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31528.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31528"
title: "perf: Make sure to use pmu_ctx-\u003epmu for groups"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nperf: Make sure to use pmu_ctx-\u003epmu for groups\n\nOliver reported that x86_pmu_del() ended up doing an out-of-bound memory access\nwhen group_sched_in() fails and needs to roll back.\n\nThis *should* be handled by the transaction callbacks, but he found that when\nthe group leader is a software event, the transaction handlers of the wrong PMU\nare used. Despite the move_group case in perf_event_open() and group_sched_in()\nusing pmu_ctx-\u003epmu.\n\nTurns out, inherit uses event-\u003epmu to clone the events, effectively undoing the\nmove_group case for all inherited contexts. Fix this by also making inherit use\npmu_ctx-\u003epmu, ensuring all inherited counters end up in the same pmu context.\n\nSimilarly, __perf_event_read() should use equally use pmu_ctx-\u003epmu for the\ngroup case."
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