CVEs from 2023
Total
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critical
critical 221
high
high 1,481
medium
medium 1,384
low
low 30
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3.6%
% with KEV
2.6%
% with exploit
3.5%
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| CVE | Severity | CVSS | Risk | Flags | OS | Vendor | Published | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2023-38428 | unknown | — | — | — | An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.3.4. fs/ksmbd/smb2pdu.c in ksmbd does not properly check the UserName value because it does not consider the address of security buffer, leading t… | |||
| CVE-2023-38429 | unknown | — | — | — | An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.3.4. fs/ksmbd/connection.c in ksmbd has an off-by-one error in memory allocation (because of ksmbd_smb2_check_message) that may lead to out-of-bou… | |||
| CVE-2023-38430 | unknown | — | — | — | An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.3.9. ksmbd does not validate the SMB request protocol ID, leading to an out-of-bounds read. | |||
| CVE-2023-3863 | unknown | — | — | — | A use-after-free flaw was found in nfc_llcp_find_local in net/nfc/llcp_core.c in NFC in the Linux kernel. This flaw allows a local user with special privileges to impact a kernel information leak iss… | |||
| CVE-2023-38431 | unknown | — | — | — | An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.3.8. fs/smb/server/connection.c in ksmbd does not validate the relationship between the NetBIOS header's length field and the SMB header sizes, vi… | |||
| CVE-2023-38432 | unknown | — | — | — | An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.3.10. fs/smb/server/smb2misc.c in ksmbd does not validate the relationship between the command payload size and the RFC1002 length specification, … | |||
| CVE-2023-42752 | unknown | — | — | — | An integer overflow flaw was found in the Linux kernel. This issue leads to the kernel allocating `skb_shared_info` in the userspace, which is exploitable in systems without SMAP protection since `sk… | |||
| CVE-2023-4385 | unknown | — | — | — | A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in dbFree in fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c in the journaling file system (JFS) in the Linux Kernel. This issue may allow a local attacker to crash the system due to a mi… | |||
| CVE-2023-4389 | unknown | — | — | — | A flaw was found in btrfs_get_root_ref in fs/btrfs/disk-io.c in the btrfs filesystem in the Linux Kernel due to a double decrement of the reference count. This issue may allow a local attacker with u… | |||
| CVE-2023-4394 | unknown | — | — | — | A use-after-free flaw was found in btrfs_get_dev_args_from_path in fs/btrfs/volumes.c in btrfs file-system in the Linux Kernel. This flaw allows a local attacker with special privileges to cause a sy… | |||
| CVE-2023-4458 | unknown | — | — | — | A flaw was found within the parsing of extended attributes in the kernel ksmbd module. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in a read past the … | |||
| CVE-2023-4459 | unknown | — | — | — | A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in vmxnet3_rq_cleanup in drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c in the networking sub-component in vmxnet3 in the Linux Kernel. This issue may allow a local attac… | |||
| CVE-2023-4515 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: validate command request size In commit 2b9b8f3b68ed ("ksmbd: validate command payload size"), except for SMB2_OPLOCK_BREA… | |||
| CVE-2023-4569 | unknown | — | — | — | A memory leak flaw was found in nft_set_catchall_flush in net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c in the Linux Kernel. This issue may allow a local attacker to cause double-deactivations of catchall elements, … | |||
| CVE-2023-45862 | unknown | — | — | — | An issue was discovered in drivers/usb/storage/ene_ub6250.c for the ENE UB6250 reader driver in the Linux kernel before 6.2.5. An object could potentially extend beyond the end of an allocation. | |||
| CVE-2023-4611 | unknown | — | — | — | A use-after-free flaw was found in mm/mempolicy.c in the memory management subsystem in the Linux Kernel. This issue is caused by a race between mbind() and VMA-locked page fault, and may allow a loc… | |||
| CVE-2023-46838 | unknown | — | — | — | Transmit requests in Xen's virtual network protocol can consist of multiple parts. While not really useful, except for the initial part any of them may be of zero length, i.e. carry no data at all. … | |||
| CVE-2023-52429 | unknown | — | — | — | dm_table_create in drivers/md/dm-table.c in the Linux kernel through 6.7.4 can attempt to (in alloc_targets) allocate more than INT_MAX bytes, and crash, because of a missing check for struct dm_ioct… | |||
| CVE-2023-46343 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel before 6.5.9, there is a NULL pointer dereference in send_acknowledge in net/nfc/nci/spi.c. | |||
| CVE-2023-50431 | unknown | — | — | — | sec_attest_info in drivers/accel/habanalabs/common/habanalabs_ioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 6.6.5 allows an information leak to user space because info->pad0 is not initialized. | |||
| CVE-2023-51781 | unknown | — | — | — | An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.6.8. atalk_ioctl in net/appletalk/ddp.c has a use-after-free because of an atalk_recvmsg race condition. | |||
| CVE-2023-5158 | unknown | — | — | — | A flaw was found in vringh_kiov_advance in drivers/vhost/vringh.c in the host side of a virtio ring in the Linux Kernel. This issue may result in a denial of service from guest to host via zero lengt… | |||
| CVE-2023-52440 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix slub overflow in ksmbd_decode_ntlmssp_auth_blob() If authblob->SessionKey.Length is bigger than session key size(CIFS_… | |||
| CVE-2023-52443 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: avoid crash when parsed profile name is empty When processing a packed profile in unpack_profile() described like "pr… | |||
| CVE-2023-51782 | unknown | — | — | — | An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.6.8. rose_ioctl in net/rose/af_rose.c has a use-after-free because of a rose_accept race condition. | |||
| CVE-2023-5197 | unknown | — | — | — | A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's netfilter: nf_tables component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. Addition and removal of rules from chain bindings within t… | |||
| CVE-2023-52433 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: skip sync GC for new elements in this transaction New elements in this transaction might expired befor… | |||
| CVE-2023-52438 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: binder: fix use-after-free in shinker's callback The mmap read lock is used during the shrinker's callback, which means that usin… | |||
| CVE-2023-52436 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: explicitly null-terminate the xattr list When setting an xattr, explicitly null-terminate the xattr list. This eliminates … | |||
| CVE-2023-52441 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix out of bounds in init_smb2_rsp_hdr() If client send smb2 negotiate request and then send smb1 negotiate request, init_… | |||
| CVE-2023-52444 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to avoid dirent corruption As Al reported in link[1]: f2fs_rename() ... if (old_dir != new_dir && !whiteout) f2fs_s… | |||
| CVE-2023-52442 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: validate session id and tree id in compound request `smb2_get_msg()` in smb2_get_ksmbd_tcon() and smb2_check_user_session(… | |||
| CVE-2023-52449 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mtd: Fix gluebi NULL pointer dereference caused by ftl notifier If both ftl.ko and gluebi.ko are loaded, the notifier of ftl trig… | |||
| CVE-2023-52453 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hisi_acc_vfio_pci: Update migration data pointer correctly on saving/resume When the optional PRE_COPY support was added to speed… | |||
| CVE-2023-52454 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvmet-tcp: Fix a kernel panic when host sends an invalid H2C PDU length If the host sends an H2CData command with an invalid DATA… | |||
| CVE-2023-52456 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: imx: fix tx statemachine deadlock When using the serial port as RS485 port, the tx statemachine is used to control the RT… | |||
| CVE-2023-52457 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: 8250: omap: Don't skip resource freeing if pm_runtime_resume_and_get() failed Returning an error code from .remove() make… | |||
| CVE-2023-52460 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Fix NULL pointer dereference at hibernate During hibernate sequence the source context might not have a clk_mgr.… | |||
| CVE-2023-52459 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: v4l: async: Fix duplicated list deletion The list deletion call dropped here is already called from the helper function in… | |||
| CVE-2023-52461 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/sched: Fix bounds limiting when given a malformed entity If we're given a malformed entity in drm_sched_entity_init()--should… | |||
| CVE-2023-52564 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Revert "tty: n_gsm: fix UAF in gsm_cleanup_mux" This reverts commit 9b9c8195f3f0d74a826077fc1c01b9ee74907239. The commit above i… | |||
| CVE-2023-52566 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: fix potential use after free in nilfs_gccache_submit_read_data() In nilfs_gccache_submit_read_data(), brelse(bh) is calle… | |||
| CVE-2023-52583 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ceph: fix deadlock or deadcode of misusing dget() The lock order is incorrect between denty and its parent, we should always make… | |||
| CVE-2023-52567 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: 8250_port: Check IRQ data before use In case the leaf driver wants to use IRQ polling (irq = 0) and IIR register shows th… | |||
| CVE-2023-52573 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: rds: Fix possible NULL-pointer dereference In rds_rdma_cm_event_handler_cmn() check, if conn pointer exists before dereferen… | |||
| CVE-2023-52569 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: remove BUG() after failure to insert delayed dir index item Instead of calling BUG() when we fail to insert a delayed dir … | |||
| CVE-2023-52571 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: power: supply: rk817: Fix node refcount leak Dan Carpenter reports that the Smatch static checker warning has found that there is… | |||
| CVE-2023-52576 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/mm, kexec, ima: Use memblock_free_late() from ima_free_kexec_buffer() The code calling ima_free_kexec_buffer() runs long afte… | |||
| CVE-2023-52586 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm/dpu: Add mutex lock in control vblank irq Add a mutex lock to control vblank irq to synchronize vblank enable/disable ope… | |||
| CVE-2023-52587 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: IB/ipoib: Fix mcast list locking Releasing the `priv->lock` while iterating the `priv->multicast_list` in `ipoib_mcast_join_task(… | |||
| CVE-2023-52593 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: wfx: fix possible NULL pointer dereference in wfx_set_mfp_ap() Since 'ieee80211_beacon_get()' can return NULL, 'wfx_set_mfp… | |||
| CVE-2023-52584 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spmi: mediatek: Fix UAF on device remove The pmif driver data that contains the clocks is allocated along with spmi_controller. O… | |||
| CVE-2023-52588 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to tag gcing flag on page during block migration It needs to add missing gcing flag on page during block migration, in … | |||
| CVE-2023-52589 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: rkisp1: Fix IRQ disable race issue In rkisp1_isp_stop() and rkisp1_csi_disable() the driver masks the interrupts and then … | |||
| CVE-2023-52590 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ocfs2: Avoid touching renamed directory if parent does not change The VFS will not be locking moved directory if its parent does … | |||
| CVE-2023-52591 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: reiserfs: Avoid touching renamed directory if parent does not change The VFS will not be locking moved directory if its parent do… | |||
| CVE-2023-52596 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sysctl: Fix out of bounds access for empty sysctl registers When registering tables to the sysctl subsystem there is a check to s… | |||
| CVE-2023-52601 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jfs: fix array-index-out-of-bounds in dbAdjTree Currently there is a bound check missing in the dbAdjTree while accessing the dmt… | |||
| CVE-2023-52616 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: lib/mpi - Fix unexpected pointer access in mpi_ec_init When the mpi_ec_ctx structure is initialized, some fields are not … | |||
| CVE-2023-52599 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jfs: fix array-index-out-of-bounds in diNewExt [Syz report] UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c:2360:2 index -8… | |||
| CVE-2023-52600 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jfs: fix uaf in jfs_evict_inode When the execution of diMount(ipimap) fails, the object ipimap that has been released may be acce… | |||
| CVE-2023-52602 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jfs: fix slab-out-of-bounds Read in dtSearch Currently while searching for current page in the sorted entry table of the page the… | |||
| CVE-2023-52603 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in dtSplitRoot Syzkaller reported the following issue: oop0: detected capacity change from 0 to… | |||
| CVE-2023-52678 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdkfd: Confirm list is non-empty before utilizing list_first_entry in kfd_topology.c Before using list_first_entry, make sur… | |||
| CVE-2023-52681 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: efivarfs: Free s_fs_info on unmount Now that we allocate a s_fs_info struct on fs context creation, we should ensure that we free… | |||
| CVE-2023-52682 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to wait on block writeback for post_read case If inode is compressed, but not encrypted, it missed to call f2fs_wait_on… | |||
| CVE-2023-52684 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware: qcom: qseecom: fix memory leaks in error paths Fix instances of returning error codes directly instead of jumping to th… | |||
| CVE-2023-52688 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath12k: fix the error handler of rfkill config When the core rfkill config throws error, it should free the allocated resou… | |||
| CVE-2023-52691 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/pm: fix a double-free in si_dpm_init When the allocation of adev->pm.dpm.dyn_state.vddc_dependency_on_dispclk.entries fai… | |||
| CVE-2023-52687 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: safexcel - Add error handling for dma_map_sg() calls Macro dma_map_sg() may return 0 on error. This patch enables checks … | |||
| CVE-2023-52692 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: scarlett2: Add missing error check to scarlett2_usb_set_config() scarlett2_usb_set_config() calls scarlett2_usb_get() but w… | |||
| CVE-2023-52693 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ACPI: video: check for error while searching for backlight device parent If acpi_get_parent() called in acpi_video_dev_register_b… | |||
| CVE-2023-52694 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/bridge: tpd12s015: Drop buggy __exit annotation for remove function With tpd12s015_remove() marked with __exit this function … | |||
| CVE-2023-52695 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Check writeback connectors in create_validate_stream_for_sink [WHY & HOW] This is to check connector type to avo… | |||
| CVE-2023-52699 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sysv: don't call sb_bread() with pointers_lock held syzbot is reporting sleep in atomic context in SysV filesystem [1], for sb_br… | |||
| CVE-2023-1523 | unknown | — | — | — | Using the TIOCLINUX ioctl request, a malicious snap could inject contents into the input of the controlling terminal which could allow it to cause arbitrary commands to be executed outside of the sna… | |||
| CVE-2023-26437 | unknown | — | — | — | Denial of service vulnerability in PowerDNS Recursor allows authoritative servers to be marked unavailable.This issue affects Recursor: through 4.6.5, through 4.7.4 , through 4.8.3. | |||
| CVE-2023-52763 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i3c: master: mipi-i3c-hci: Fix a kernel panic for accessing DAT_data. The `i3c_master_bus_init` function may attach the I2C devic… | |||
| CVE-2023-52766 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i3c: mipi-i3c-hci: Fix out of bounds access in hci_dma_irq_handler Do not loop over ring headers in hci_dma_irq_handler() that ar… | |||
| CVE-2023-52767 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tls: fix NULL deref on tls_sw_splice_eof() with empty record syzkaller discovered that if tls_sw_splice_eof() is executed as part… | |||
| CVE-2023-52768 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: wilc1000: use vmm_table as array in wilc struct Enabling KASAN and running some iperf tests raises some memory issues with … | |||
| CVE-2023-52780 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: mvneta: fix calls to page_pool_get_stats Calling page_pool_get_stats in the mvneta driver without checks leads to kernel cra… | |||
| CVE-2023-52786 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix racy may inline data check in dio write syzbot reports that the following warning from ext4_iomap_begin() triggers as o… | |||
| CVE-2023-52769 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath12k: fix htt mlo-offset event locking The ath12k active pdevs are protected by RCU but the htt mlo-offset event handling… | |||
| CVE-2023-22617 | unknown | — | — | — | A remote attacker might be able to cause infinite recursion in PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0 via a DNS query that retrieves DS records for a misconfigured domain, because QName minimization is used in QM f… | |||
| CVE-2023-52774 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/dasd: protect device queue against concurrent access In dasd_profile_start() the amount of requests on the device queue are … | |||
| CVE-2023-52773 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: fix a NULL pointer dereference in amdgpu_dm_i2c_xfer() When ddc_service_construct() is called, it explicitly che… | |||
| CVE-2023-52776 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath12k: fix dfs-radar and temperature event locking The ath12k active pdevs are protected by RCU but the DFS-radar and temp… | |||
| CVE-2023-52779 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs: Pass AT_GETATTR_NOSEC flag to getattr interface function When vfs_getattr_nosec() calls a filesystem's getattr interface func… | |||
| CVE-2023-52783 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: wangxun: fix kernel panic due to null pointer When the device uses a custom subsystem vendor ID, the function wx_sw_init() r… | |||
| CVE-2023-52785 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: ufs: core: Fix racing issue between ufshcd_mcq_abort() and ISR If command timeout happens and cq complete IRQ is raised at … | |||
| CVE-2023-52795 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vhost-vdpa: fix use after free in vhost_vdpa_probe() The put_device() calls vhost_vdpa_release_dev() which calls ida_simple_remov… | |||
| CVE-2023-52787 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: blk-mq: make sure active queue usage is held for bio_integrity_prep() blk_integrity_unregister() can come if queue usage counter … | |||
| CVE-2023-52789 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: vcc: Add check for kstrdup() in vcc_probe() Add check for the return value of kstrdup() and return the error, if it fails in… | |||
| CVE-2023-52790 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: swiotlb: fix out-of-bounds TLB allocations with CONFIG_SWIOTLB_DYNAMIC Limit the free list length to the size of the IO TLB. Tran… | |||
| CVE-2023-52792 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cxl/region: Do not try to cleanup after cxl_region_setup_targets() fails Commit 5e42bcbc3fef ("cxl/region: decrement ->nr_targets… | |||
| CVE-2023-52826 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/panel/panel-tpo-tpg110: fix a possible null pointer dereference In tpg110_get_modes(), the return value of drm_mode_duplicate… | |||
| CVE-2023-52828 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Detect IP == ksym.end as part of BPF program Now that bpf_throw kfunc is the first such call instruction that has noreturn s… | |||
| CVE-2023-52829 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath12k: fix possible out-of-bound write in ath12k_wmi_ext_hal_reg_caps() reg_cap.phy_id is extracted from WMI event and cou… | |||
| CVE-2023-52839 | unknown | — | — | — | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drivers: perf: Do not broadcast to other cpus when starting a counter This command: $ perf record -e cycles:k -e instructions:k … |