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CVE-2020-27171

MEDIUM
6.0

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.8. kernel/bpf/verifier.c has an off-by-one error (with a resultant integer underflow) affecting 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-10d2bb2e6b1d.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score6.0
SeverityMEDIUM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Attack VectorLOCAL
ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredHIGH
User InteractionNONE
Published3/20/2021
Last Modified11/21/2024
Sourcenvd
Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

canonical:ubuntu_linuxdebian:debian_linuxfedoraproject:fedoralinux:linux_kernel

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-193

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/24/5(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/19/3(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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