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CVE-2021-29155

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Published: Apr 20, 2021Modified: Jun 17, 2026

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5.5
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 3.6
Source: NVD

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.

Affected (5)

1 product
Linux Kernel
1 product
Fedora
1 product
Debian Linux
Configuration A
1 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Before 5.11.16
Configuration B
3 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Fedoraproject
Version 32
Version 33
Version 34
Configuration C
1 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Version 9.0

References (28)

Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory

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