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CVE-2020-27170

Published: Mar 20, 2021

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

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Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.11.8

x_refsource_MISC

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/19/2

x_refsource_MISC

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f232326f6966cf2a1d1db7bc917a4ce5f9f55f76

x_refsource_MISC

FEDORA-2021-f0181b8085

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_FEDORA

FEDORA-2021-e49da8a226

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_FEDORA

[oss-security] 20210324 Re: [CVE-2020-27170] Protection against speculatively out-of-bounds loads in the Linux kernel can be bypassed by unprivileged local users to leak content of kernel memory

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

FEDORA-2021-9503fffad9

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_FEDORA

[debian-lts-announce] 20210330 [SECURITY] [DLA 2610-1] linux-4.19 security update

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162117/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0075-1.html

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