Untrusted Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-cross-headers  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELCROSSHEADERS-4119488
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed1 Feb 2021

Introduced: 1 Feb 2021

CVE-2021-20239  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-822  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-cross-headers package and not the kernel-cross-headers package as distributed by RHEL.

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in versions before 5.4.92 in the BPF protocol. This flaw allows an attacker with a local account to leak information about kernel internal addresses. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.