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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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-03-20T21:41:40.000Z

Updated: 2026-10-08T21:03:19.074Z

Reserved: 2020-10-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-27171

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T16:11:35.875Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-03-20T22:15:12.000

Modified: 2026-10-08T21:17:27.333

Link: CVE-2020-27171

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-03-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-27171 - Bugzilla