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CVE-2021-29155

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5 EPSS 1.07%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2021-04-20 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2021-29155
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
1.07%
Linux

Original NVD 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.