| Name | CVE-2021-4159 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3131-1, ELA-696-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| linux (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 3.16.84-1 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security) | 4.9.320-2 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 4.9.320-3 | vulnerable |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 4.19.316-1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 5.10.223-1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 5.10.226-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 6.1.115-1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 6.1.119-1 | fixed |
| trixie | 6.12.5-1 | fixed |
| sid | 6.12.6-1 | fixed |
| linux-4.19 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 4.19.316-1~deb8u1 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 4.19.232-1~deb9u1 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 4.19.316-1~deb9u1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[stretch] - linux <ignored> (Too risky to backport, and mitigated by default)
Fixed by: https://git.kernel.org/linus/294f2fc6da27620a506e6c050241655459ccd6bd (5.7-rc1)