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K70992015 : Linux kernel vulnerabilty CVE-2021-33200

2022-05-1000:00:00
my.f5.com
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linux kernel
vulnerability
pointer arithmetic
local privilege escalation
root
cve-2021-33200

AI Score

7.4

Confidence

High

EPSS

0

Percentile

5.1%

Security Advisory Description

kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel through 5.12.7 enforces incorrect limits for pointer arithmetic operations, aka CID-bb01a1bba579. This can be abused to perform out-of-bounds reads and writes in kernel memory, leading to local privilege escalation to root. In particular, there is a corner case where the off reg causes a masking direction change, which then results in an incorrect final aux->alu_limit. (CVE-2021-33200)

Impact

There is no impact; F5 products are not affected by this vulnerability.