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.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-03-20T21:41:40

Updated: 2021-04-07T23:06:18

Reserved: 2020-10-16T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2020-27171

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-03-20T22:15:12.000

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:20:50.370


Link: CVE-2020-27171

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