CVE-2020-27170CWE-203

CVE-2020-27170

Medium · published March 21, 2021

CVSS v3.1
4.7
EPSS
1%
Percentile
46.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.8. 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, aka CID-f232326f6966. This affects pointer types that do not define a ptr_limit.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.7 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00565 · 46.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-203 · Observable Discrepancy
Published
2021-03-21T02:15Z
Affected products (9)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel< 5.11.85.11.8
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References (18)
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162117/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0075-1.html · [email protected]http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/24/4 · [email protected]https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.11.8 · [email protected]https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f232326f6966cf2a1d1db7bc917a4ce5f9f55f76 · [email protected]https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00035.html · [email protected]https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FB6LUXPEIRLZH32YXWZVEZAD4ZL6SDK2/ · [email protected]https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QRTPQE73ANG7D6M4L4PK5ZQDPO4Y2FVD/ · [email protected]https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T2S3I4SLRNRUQDOFYUS6IUAZMQNMPNLG/ · [email protected]https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/19/2 · [email protected]http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162117/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0075-1.html · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/24/4 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.11.8 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f232326f6966cf2a1d1db7bc917a4ce5f9f55f76 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00035.html · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FB6LUXPEIRLZH32YXWZVEZAD4ZL6SDK2/ · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QRTPQE73ANG7D6M4L4PK5ZQDPO4Y2FVD/ · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T2S3I4SLRNRUQDOFYUS6IUAZMQNMPNLG/ · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/19/2 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 MAR 21:30Z
    An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.8
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