Vulnerability CVE-2021-4159
Published: 2022-08-24

Description:
A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's EBPF verifier when handling internal data structures. Internal memory locations could be returned to userspace. A local attacker with the permissions to insert eBPF code to the kernel can use this to leak internal kernel memory details defeating some of the exploit mitigations in place for the kernel.

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4159
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2036024
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-4159
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=294f2fc6da27620a506e6c050241655459ccd6bd
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