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CVE-2020-27170A-183840542PUB-A-183840542

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.8.

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in :2021-07-05
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.8. 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, aka CID-f232326f6966. This affects pointer types that do not define a ptr_limit.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • :linux_kernel:Android

    From :0 · fixed in :2021-07-05

References 9

cdn.kernel.org

openwall.com

git.kernel.org

lists.fedoraproject.org

lists.debian.org

packetstormsecurity.com