CVE-2021-29155

CVE Details

Release Date:

2021-04-20

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.

See more information about CVE-2021-29155 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v3.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	5.5	Base Metrics:	AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Access Vector:	Local network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Privileges Required:	Low	User Interaction:	None
Scope:	Unchanged	Confidentiality Impact:	High
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2021-9362	2021-07-16
Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek-container)	ELSA-2021-9363	2021-07-16
Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel)	ELSA-2021-4356	2021-11-16
Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2021-9362	2021-07-16
Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel-uek-container)	ELSA-2021-9363	2021-07-16

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