CVE-2020-27171

Public on 2021-03-20
Modified on 2021-07-15
Description
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 flaw that triggers Integer underflow when restricting speculative pointer arithmetic allows unprivileged local users to leak the content of kernel memory. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.0
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel 2021-04-20 ALAS2-2021-1627 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 3.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 6.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H