Security Advisory

CVE-2021-33624

4.7
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

In kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel before 5.12.13, a branch can be mispredicted (e.g., because of type confusion) and consequently an unprivileged BPF program can read arbitrary memory locations via a side-channel attack, aka CID-9183671af6db.
Published Date June 23, 2021
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory