UBUNTU-CVE-2021-29155
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.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
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03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-29155
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4977-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4983-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4999-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-29155
- https://www.kernel.org
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/04/18/4