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CVE-2021-29155

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.x. kernel/bpf/verifier.c performs undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic, leading to side-channel attacks that defeat Spectre mitigations and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. Specifically, for sequences of pointer arithmetic operations, the pointer modification performed by the first operation is not correctly accounted for when restricting subsequent operations.


Affected Software


CPE Name Name Version
linux:linux_kernel linux linux kernel 5.11.16
fedoraproject:fedora fedoraproject fedora 32
fedoraproject:fedora fedoraproject fedora 33
fedoraproject:fedora fedoraproject fedora 34
debian:debian_linux debian debian linux 9.0

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