Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-34556 - Information Exposure Through Discrepancy vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 5.5 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE

Summary

In the Linux kernel through 5.13.7, an unprivileged BPF program can obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a Speculative Store Bypass side-channel attack because the protection mechanism neglects the possibility of uninitialized memory locations on the BPF stack.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Linux
4759
OS
Fedoraproject
2
OS
Debian
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)