vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2021-4159): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Feb 10, 2022
Added
Oct 11, 2022
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

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.

Solutions

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