Off-by-one Error Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.11.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006286
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 Mar 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Mar 2021

CVE-2020-27171  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-193  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.11.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Off-by-one Error. An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.8. kernel/bpf/verifier.c has an off-by-one error (with a resultant integer underflow) affecting 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-10d2bb2e6b1d.

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