Medium · published March 21, 2021
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.
| Product | Versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| linux/linux_kernel | < 5.11.8 | 5.11.8 |
| fedoraproject/fedora | all versions | — |
| fedoraproject/fedora | all versions | — |
| fedoraproject/fedora | all versions | — |
| canonical/ubuntu_linux | all versions | — |
| canonical/ubuntu_linux | all versions | — |
| canonical/ubuntu_linux | all versions | — |
| canonical/ubuntu_linux | all versions | — |
| debian/debian_linux | all versions | — |