kernel: protection for sequences of pointer arithmetic operations against speculatively out-of-bounds loads can be bypassed to leak content of kernel memory

A vulnerability was discovered in retrieveptrlimit in kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel mechanism to mitigate speculatively out-of-bounds loads Spectre mitigation. In this flaw a local, special user privileged CAPSYSADMIN BPF program running on affected systems may bypass the protection,...