CVE-2020-27171

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.

Weakness classification

• nvd@nist.gov: CWE-193

Primary references

• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• cve@mitre.org — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Patch, Vendor Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Patch, Vendor Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org
• cve@mitre.org
• cve@mitre.org
• cve@mitre.org — Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Patch, Vendor Advisory