CVE-2021-29155Out-of-bounds Read in Kernel

Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV3.5
EPSS
0.2%
top 56.25%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedApr 20
Latest updateMay 24

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages9 packages

Also affects: Debian Linux 9.0, Fedora 32, 33, 34

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

5
GHSA
GHSA-4x89-mjpg-vp94: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 52022-05-24
OSV
CVE-2021-29155: In several functions of verifier2021-10-01
OSV
linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.8, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.8, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.8, linux-hwe-5.8, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.8, linux-raspi vulnerabilities2021-06-23
OSV
linux-oem-5.10 vulnerabilities2021-06-03
OSV
CVE-2021-29155: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 52021-04-20

📋Vendor Advisories

5
Ubuntu
Linux kernel vulnerabilities2021-06-23
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities2021-06-03
Red Hat
kernel: protection for sequences of pointer arithmetic operations against speculatively out-of-bounds loads can be bypassed to leak content of kernel memory2021-04-18
Microsoft
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 Spect2021-04-13
Debian
CVE-2021-29155: linux - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.x. kernel/bpf/verifier....2021