Arbitrary Code Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package bpftool  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-BPFTOOL-1935836
  • published27 Feb 2025
  • disclosed11 Dec 2020

Introduced: 11 Dec 2020

CVE-2021-3411  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bpftool package and not the bpftool package as distributed by Centos.

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in versions prior to 5.10. A violation of memory access was found while detecting a padding of int3 in the linking state. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.