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CVE-2021-33200

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 0.38%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2021-05-27 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8. It affects Linux.

CVE
CVE-2021-33200
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
0.38%
Linux

Original NVD Description

kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel through 5.12.7 enforces incorrect limits for pointer arithmetic operations, aka CID-bb01a1bba579. This can be abused to perform out-of-bounds reads and writes in kernel memory, leading to local privilege escalation to root. In particular, there is a corner case where the off reg causes a masking direction change, which then results in an incorrect final aux->alu_limit.

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