CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-4159

Published: Aug 24, 2022 | Modified: Oct 06, 2022
CVSS 3.x
4.4
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernels EBPF verifier when handling internal data structures. Internal memory locations could be returned to userspace. A local attacker with the permissions to insert eBPF code to the kernel can use this to leak internal kernel memory details defeating some of the exploit mitigations in place for the kernel.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux * 5.7 (excluding)

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