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{"affected_release": [{"advisory": "RHSA-2021:2316", "cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_extras_rt:7", "package": "kernel-rt-0:3.10.0-1160.31.1.rt56.1169.el7", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7", "release_date": "2021-06-08T00:00:00Z"}, {"advisory": "RHSA-2021:2314", "cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "package": "kernel-0:3.10.0-1160.31.1.el7", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7", "release_date": "2021-06-08T00:00:00Z"}], "bugzilla": {"description": "kernel: Speculation on pointer arithmetic against bpf_context pointer", "id": "1940627", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1940627"}, "csaw": false, "cvss3": {"cvss3_base_score": "4.7", "cvss3_scoring_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N", "status": "verified"}, "cwe": "CWE-200", "details": ["An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.11.8. kernel/bpf/verifier.c performs undesirable 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-f232326f6966. This affects pointer types that do not define a ptr_limit.", "A flaw was found in the Linux kernels eBPF verification code. By default accessing the eBPF verifier is only accessible to privileged users with CAP_SYS_ADMIN. A local user with the ability to insert eBPF instructions can use the eBPF verifier to abuse a spectre like flaw where they can infer all system memory."], "mitigation": {"lang": "en:us", "value": "The default Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel prevents unprivileged users from being able to use eBPF by the kernel.unprivileged_bpf_disabled sysctl. This would require a privileged user with CAP_SYS_ADMIN or root to be able to abuse this flaw reducing its attack space.\nFor the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 the eBPF for unprivileged users is always disabled.\nFor the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 to confirm the current state, inspect the sysctl with the command:\n# cat /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_bpf_disabled\nThe setting of 1 would mean that unprivileged users can not use eBPF, mitigating the flaw.\nA kernel update will be required to mitigate the flaw for the root or users with CAP_SYS_ADMIN capabilities."}, "name": "CVE-2020-27170", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Out of support scope", "package_name": "kernel-alt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}], "public_date": "2021-03-19T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-27170\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27170"], "threat_severity": "Moderate"}