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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-80671" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-28T06:49:11.744Z" updatedAt: "2026-09-14T11:58:49.345Z" 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-2026-80671" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80671.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80671" title: "perf sched: Fix register_pid() overflow, strcpy, and BUG_ON" summary: "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-\u003ecomm, 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-\u003etasks 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." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ec156764d424dd67283c2cd5e9f6f1b8388364ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"344e59fc4f2cba6dc04ce5e2a77388645d4ca834"},{"version":"ec156764d424dd67283c2cd5e9f6f1b8388364ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"22263d241bad753217d545f8085b7ead52e2873b"},{"version":"ec156764d424dd67283c2cd5e9f6f1b8388364ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2003918e13f43cf6c5698be3cc9aa3657dd676a8"},{"version":"ec156764d424dd67283c2cd5e9f6f1b8388364ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"29639f00bfa49da7904ba0a499e0da7a0e5d735e"},{"version":"ec156764d424dd67283c2cd5e9f6f1b8388364ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"261d2b5f4afa0570ca906e553c93811c5abe4590"},{"version":"ec156764d424dd67283c2cd5e9f6f1b8388364ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"652cea73b7b7b7c622a2be670e44e3c499c6d49f"},{"version":"ec156764d424dd67283c2cd5e9f6f1b8388364ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5ea1dcc9418c4e06ce29ed5170596f497ba86872"},{"version":"ec156764d424dd67283c2cd5e9f6f1b8388364ac","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5949d339f5ec98752d56dcd4e36f619a59d513a5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.32","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.32"},{"version":"5.10.270","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.221","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"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"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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