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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-80670"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-28T06:49:11.120Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-29T06:21:56.727Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-80670"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80670.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80670"
title: "perf tools: Use perf_env__get_cpu_topology() in machine__resolve()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nperf tools: Use perf_env__get_cpu_topology() in machine__resolve()\n\nmachine__resolve() accesses env-\u003ecpu[al-\u003ecpu].socket_id after checking\nal-\u003ecpu \u003e= 0 and env-\u003ecpu != NULL, but without validating al-\u003ecpu\nagainst env-\u003enr_cpus_avail.  Since al-\u003ecpu comes from the untrusted\nperf.data sample, a crafted file with a large CPU index causes an\nout-of-bounds heap read.\n\nUse perf_env__get_cpu_topology() which validates both NULL and bounds.\nAlso bounds-check al-\u003ecpu before the cast to struct perf_cpu (int16_t):\nwithout this, values like 65536 silently truncate to 0, bypassing the\naccessor's internal check and returning CPU 0's topology."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0c4c4debb0adda4c18c158d95031dc2b9f637869","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b9e8406651dcc1c19238aad11861a758683525b4"},{"version":"0c4c4debb0adda4c18c158d95031dc2b9f637869","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eb266a14c16a93eb4db7b56a452d6be93f8bdcd4"},{"version":"0c4c4debb0adda4c18c158d95031dc2b9f637869","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5484b43a0ec8231c36fba6ead654cb72dbba8b8f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.4"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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