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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 20, 2021· Updated Aug 4, 2024

CVE-2020-27171

CVE-2020-27171

Description

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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