CVE-2021-29155 — Out-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
Affected products
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
5OSV▶
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 vulnerabilities↗2021-06-23
📋Vendor Advisories
5Red Hat▶
kernel: protection for sequences of pointer arithmetic operations against speculatively out-of-bounds loads can be bypassed to leak content of kernel memory↗2021-04-18
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 Spect↗2021-04-13
Debian▶
CVE-2021-29155: linux - An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.x. kernel/bpf/verifier....↗2021