GHSA-x6wj-2wrr-74p6MediumCVSS 4.7

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.8. kernel/bpf/verifier.c performs...

Published
May 24, 2022
Last Modified
October 8, 2026

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📋 Description

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.

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