CVE-2020-27171

MEDIUM

Linux kernel <5.11.8 - Info Disclosure

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 6.0
EPSS 0.0018
EPSS Percentile 39.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-193
Status published
Products (9)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 20.04
debian/debian_linux 9.0
fedoraproject/fedora 32
fedoraproject/fedora 33
fedoraproject/fedora 34
linux/linux_kernel < 5.11.8
Published Mar 20, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026