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CVE-2021-29155 Details

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.x. 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. Specifically, for sequences of pointer arithmetic operations, the pointer modification performed by the first operation is not correctly accounted for when restricting subsequent operations.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:5.5 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=073815b756c51ba9d8384d924c5d1c03ca3d1ae4 CVE
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=24c109bb1537c12c02aeed2d51a347b4d6a9b76e CVE
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6f55b2f2a1178856c19bbce2f71449926e731914 CVE
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7fedb63a8307dda0ec3b8969a3b233a1dd7ea8e0 CVE
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9601148392520e2e134936e76788fc2a6371e7be CVE

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-125Out-of-bounds Read[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
linux linux kernel
< 5.11.16

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
fedoraproject fedora
32
33
34

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
debian debian linux
9.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

12 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2021-29155
NVD Published Date:
Apr 20, 2021
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2021-29155 Details - Not Deferred