vulnerability

Alma Linux: CVE-2021-31829: Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-4356)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
May 6, 2021
Added
May 4, 2022
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel through 5.12.1 performs undesirable speculative loads, leading to disclosure of stack content via side-channel attacks, aka CID-801c6058d14a. The specific concern is not protecting the BPF stack area against speculative loads. Also, the BPF stack can contain uninitialized data that might represent sensitive information previously operated on by the kernel.

Solution

alma-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs-devel
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